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Front Cover: Revisiting a Historical Concept by Using Quantum Crystallography: Are Phosphate, Sulfate and Perchlorate Anions Hypervalent? (Chem. Eur. J. 26/2019)
Author(s) -
Fugel Malte,
Malaspina Lorraine A.,
Pal Rumpa,
Thomas Sajesh P.,
Shi Ming W.,
Spackman Mark A.,
Sugimoto Kunihisa,
Grabowsky Simon
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201901181
Subject(s) - hypervalent molecule , cover (algebra) , perchlorate , front cover , wave function , chemistry , computational chemistry , physics , ion , quantum mechanics , organic chemistry , engineering , mechanical engineering , reagent
Hypervalency is a historical chemical concept that has made it into the common language of researchers, although it is still highly debatable. The cover art depicts one of the main messages of the present study: Lewis structure representations are not sufficient to understand chemical bonding, but a complementary bonding analysis employing real‐space, orbital and energy information must be applied instead. Such an analysis for the fundamental isoelectronic anions phosphate, sulfate, and perchlorate is carried out using theoretical and experimentally constrained wavefunctions. More information can be found in the Full Paper by S. Grabowsky et al. on page 6523.