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Does the Death Knell Toll for the Metallic Bond?
Author(s) -
Schön J. Christian
Publication year - 1995
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.199510811
Subject(s) - bond , covalent bond , limiting , metal , bond order , metallic bonding , ab initio , chemistry , materials science , nanotechnology , bond length , crystallography , engineering , business , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , crystal structure , finance
“The metallic bond still lives!” maintains the author of this highlight. In two recent papers theoreticians argue against the concept of the metallic bond as a distinct type of bond, and favor treating it as a limiting case of the covalent bond based on ab initio descriptions of bonding in solids. Still, J. C. Schön is convinced that the metallic bond, correctly understood as a qualitative concept, will continue to be used by solid‐state chemists.