The Chemical Bond

Preface
 
CHEMICAL BONDING OF MAIN-GROUP ELEMENTS
Introduction and Definitions
The Lack of Radial Nodes of the 2p Shell Accounts for Most of the Peculiarities of the Chemistry of the 2p-Elements
The Role of the Outer d-Orbitals in Bonding
Secondary Periodicities: Incomplete-Screening and Relativistic Effects
"Honorary d-Elements": the Peculiarities of Structure and Bonding of the Heavy Group 2 Elements
Concluding Remarks
 
MULTIPLE BONDING OF HEAVY MAIN-GROUP ATOMS
Introduction
Bonding Analysis of Diatomic Molecules E2 (E = N - Bi)
Comparative Bonding Analysis of N2 and P2 with N4 and P4
Bonding Analysis of the Tetrylynes HEEH (E = C - Pb)
Explaining the Different Structures of the Tetrylynes HEEH (E = C - Pb)
Energy Decomposition Analysis of the Tetrylynes HEEH (E = C - Pb)
Conclusion
 
THE ROLE OF RECOUPLED PAIR BONDING IN HYPERVALENT MOLECULES
Introduction
Multireference Wavefunction Treatment of Bonding
Low-Lying States of SF and OF
Low-Lying States of SF2 and OF2 (and Beyond)
Comparison to Other Models
Concluding Remarks
 
DONOR-ACCEPTOR COMPLEXES OF MAIN-GROUP ELEMENTS
Introduction
Single-Center Complexes EL2
Two-Center Complexes E2L2
Summary and Conclusion
 
ELECTRON-COUNTING RULES IN CLUSTER BONDING - POLYHEDRAL BORANES, ELEMENTAL BORON, AND BORON-RICH SOLIDS
Introduction
Wade's Rule
Localized Bonding Schemes for Bonding in Polyhedral Boranes
4n + 2 Interstitial Electron Rule and Ring-Cap Orbital Overlap Compatibility
Capping Principle
Electronic Requirement of Condensed Polyhedral Boranes - mno Rule
Factors Affecting the Stability of Condensed Polyhedral Clusters
Hypoelectronic Metallaboranes
Electronic Structure of Elemental Boron and Boron-Rich Metal Borides - Application of Electron-Counting Rules
Conclusion
 
BOUND TRIPLET PAIRS IN THE HIGHEST SPIN STATES OF MONOVALENT METAL CLUSTERS
Introduction
Can Triplet Pairs Be Bonded?
Origins of NPFM Bonding in n+1Lin

Gernot Frenking studied chemistry at the Technical University Aachen (Germany). He then became a research atudent in the group of Prof. Kenichi Fukui in Kyoto (Japan) and completed his PhD and his habilitation at Technical University Berlin (Germany). He was then a visiting scientist at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and a staff scientist at SRI International in Menlo Park, California (USA). Since 1990 he is Professor for Computational Chemistry at the Philipps-Universität Marburg.
 
Sason Shaik is a graduate of the University of Washington (USA), where he also obtained his PhD. After a postdoctoral year at Cornell University, he became Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), where he became Professor in 1988. In 1992 he moved to The Hebrew University where he is Professor and the Director of the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry.