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Charge Density and Chemical Bonding

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In the past 100 years, the Lewis diagram has frequently been challenged, modified, extended and rejected as being too simplistic. Those who teach chemistry to freshman, however, appreciate the diagram as one of the didactical rocks in the wild sea of ever developing science, because it is simple, easy to understand and long ranged in mediate basic chemistry. This article is aimed at the evaluation of the Lewis diagram in the light of modern charge density investigations and the topological analysis based on the quantum theory of atoms in molecules. Some old molecules like boranes, sulfate, and high-coordinate silicon will be revisited as well as some recent low-valent silicon species that were regarded impossible to make only some years ago. Can the Lewis diagram cope with new results from experiment and theory and be extended to “impossible” molecules? The answer is yes and that makes a model a good model: easy to adapt by and by and not suggesting any scientific dead ends, because the model might eventually be mistaken to be real from the inexperienced applicant.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within the priority program 1178 “Experimental charge density as the key to understand chemical interactions,” the DNRF-funded Center for Materials Crystallography, the PhD program CaSuS, Catalysis for Sustainable Synthesis, funded from the Land Niedersachsen, Chemetall, Frankfurt and the Volkswagenstiftung. The author is particularly indebted to many capable students for providing the results that form the basis of this article.

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Stalke, D. (2016). Charge Density and Chemical Bonding. In: Mingos, D. (eds) The Chemical Bond I. Structure and Bonding, vol 169. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/430_2015_199

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