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THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY ACCOUNTS
Volume 119, Issue 1-3, Pages 275-290Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00214-007-0282-x
Keywords
bond index; bond order; ionic bond index; covalent bond index; Roby projection operator
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Formulae for hermitian operators representing covalent, ionic, and total bond indices are derived. The eigenstates of these operators come in pairs, and can be considered as bonding, anti-bonding and lone-pair orbitals. The form of these operators is derived by generalising the rule that the bond order be defined as the net number of bonding electron pairs. The percentage of covalency and ionicity of a chemical bond may be obtained, and bond indices can also be defined between groups of atoms. The calculation of the bond indices depends only on the electron density operator, and certain projection operators used to represent each atom in the molecule. Bond indices are presented for a series of first and second row hydrides and fluorides, hydrocarbons, a metal complex, a Diels-Alder reaction and a dissociative reaction. In general the agreement between the bond indices is in accord with chemical intuition. The bond indices are shown to be stable to basis set expansion.
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