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SUBMITTER: Đorđevic S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8780489 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Đorđević Slađana S Radenković Slavko S Shaik Sason S Braïda Benoît B
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20220113 2
This article analyzes the nature of the chemical bond in coinage metal halides using high-level ab initio Valence Bond (VB) theory. It is shown that these bonds display a large Charge-Shift Bonding character, which is traced back to the large Pauli pressure arising from the interaction between the bond pair with the filled semicore d shell of the metal. The gold-halide bonds turn out to be pure Charge-Shift Bonds (CSBs), while the copper halides are polar-covalent bonds and silver halides border ...[more]