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Covalent Bonding and Charge Shift Bonds: Comment on “The Carbon–Nitrogen Bonds in Ammonium Compounds Are Charge Shift Bonds”
Author(s) -
Frenking Gernot
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201704244
Subject(s) - covalent bond , charge (physics) , ammonium , bond , chemistry , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , finance , economics
The paper by Gershoni‐Poranne and Chen (R. Gershoni‐Poranne, P. Chen, Chem . Eur. J . 2017 , 23 , 4659) gives an incorrect definition of covalent bonding. Furthermore, the assignment of so‐called charge shift bonds in ammonium compounds has no physical foundation and is conceptually redundant.