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The Coordination Number – an “Inorganic Chameleon”
Author(s) -
Hoppe R.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.197000251
Subject(s) - coordination number , polyhedron , lattice energy , maple , range (aeronautics) , lattice (music) , short range order , crystal structure , character (mathematics) , theoretical physics , mathematics , crystallography , physics , chemistry , combinatorics , materials science , geometry , quantum mechanics , ion , botany , acoustics , composite material , biology
The purpose of the present article is to describe the changing ambiguous character of the term “coordination number” and its present‐day definition in structural chemistry, particularly of typical solids (assemblies of particles with short‐range and long‐range order). An effort is made at the same time to describe the crystal structure of solids as simply as possible while also taking long‐range order into account, i.e. by determining “effective” coordination numbers by the geometrical “polyhedron method” or from MAPLE (Madelung Part of Lattice Energy) values.