INOR 236 |
| Karl O. Christe, Air Force Research Laboratory, Edwards and University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Edwards AFB, CA 93524, David A. Dixon, Fundamental Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PO Box 999, Richland, WA 99352, and Jerry A. Boatz, Space and Missle Propulsion Division, Air Force Research Laboratory, 10 East Saturn Boulevard, Edwards Air Force Base, CA 93524. |
| During our past work numerous issues concerning bonding situations in main group compounds were encountered that will be highlighted in this talk. Problems to be addressed include: (i) The steric activity of free valence electron pairs. (ii) The role of semi-ionic, multi-center bonding in complex fluorides, oxofluorides, and compounds containing sterically active free valence electron pairs. (iii) How the replacement of fluorine ligands in pentagonal bipyramidal heptafluorides by either doubly bonded oxygen ligands or free valence electron pairs influences the overall bonding. (iv) The difficulty of describing in the N5+ cation the bonding and charge distribution derived from the experimental data, with resonance structures that satisfy the octet rule. |
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Contemporary Aspects of Chemical Bonding
8:40 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, September 8, 2003 Javits Convention Center -- 1A26/1A27, Oral
Division of Inorganic Chemistry |