Introduction and Extension of the Unified Theory of Multicenter Bonding: The Role of the Charge-Shift Bonding
Francisco Javier Manjón, Hussien H. Osman, Álvaro Lobato, Fernando Izquierdo-Ruiz, Enrico Bandiello, Samuel Gallego-Parra, Ángel Vegas, Matteo Savastano, Alfonso Muñoz · 2025
Read Introduction and Extension of the Unified Theory of Multicenter Bonding: The Role of the Charge-Shift Bonding by Francisco Javier Manjón, Hussien H. Osman, Álvaro Lobato, Fernando Izquierdo-Ruiz, Enrico Bandiello, Samuel Gallego-Parra, Ángel Vegas, Matteo Savastano, Alfonso Muñoz (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-12786652.txt.
Description
Chemistry's bond catalogue sorts strong bonds from weak ones, leaving a family of odd cases in between. Francisco Javier Manjón and co-authors review those cases: charge-shift bonds, where stability comes from resonance between forms, and multicenter bonds, where electrons are shared across three atoms, richly or poorly. They argue these bonds, proposed early in quantum theory's history, never got their due attention.
The authors first retrace the history of both multicenter kinds. They then introduce a recently proposed unified theory that explains how both arise. Finally they extend that theory to absorb charge-shift bonds, which turn out to be close kin of the electron-rich kind. The integrated picture, they hope, will help researchers read material properties and design advanced materials with the odd bonds in mind.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Francisco Javier Manjón, Hussien H. Osman, Álvaro Lobato, Fernando Izquierdo-Ruiz, Enrico Bandiello, Samuel Gallego-Parra, Ángel Vegas, Matteo Savastano, Alfonso Muñoz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 106 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |