Abstract
This conversation tells a panoramic story on bonding motifs discovered and/pre-conceptualized by VB theory (VBT). Initially, the essay recounts how the authors discovered charge-shift bonding (CSB) which enriched the landscape of electron-pair bonding. This is followed by triplet-pair bonds (TPB), between pairs of electrons that possess identical spins. And finally, a story is told of new adventures in describing excited states and their bonding. This is also a tale of a wonderful and insightful theory, Valence Bond Theory, which is coming of age. This is all recounted as a conversation between three scientists who participated in this research, and are conversing here in a Socratic-Talmudic trialogue.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e202000114 |
| Journal | Israel Journal of Chemistry |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2022 |
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Keywords
- Bonding in high-spin metal clusters
- Charge-shift bonding
- Valence-bond Theory
- excited states
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