Unusual Five‐Center, Four‐Electron Bonding in a Rhodium–Bismuth Complex with Pentagonal‐Bipyramidal Geometry | Zendy

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Unusual Five‐Center, Four‐Electron Bonding in a Rhodium–Bismuth Complex with Pentagonal‐Bipyramidal Geometry

Author(s) -

Xu Zhitao,

Lin Zhenyang

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

angewandte chemie international edition

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831

H-Index - 550

eISSN - 1521-3773

pISSN - 1433-7851

DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(19980703)37:12<1686::aid-anie1686>3.0.co;2-r

Subject(s) - bismuth , rhodium , pentagonal bipyramidal molecular geometry , center (category theory) , bipyramid , geometry , crystallography , electron , materials science , chemistry , physics , mathematics , crystal structure , metallurgy , nuclear physics , catalysis , biochemistry

A better understanding of the chemical bond in general is gained from the electronic structure of the molecular complex [{RhBi 7 }Br 8 ]. The interactions in the central Bi 5 ring can be interpreted as an unusual five‐center, four‐electron bond based on ab initio calculations and group theory. Of the linear combinations of five Bi p orbitals two of the molecular orbitals are binding (depicted in the sketch).

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