The Mayer bond order as a tool in inorganic chemistry
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Abstract
The bonding in molecules is most often described using the classical chemical ideas of covalency (bond multiplicity) and ionicity (atomic charges). The Mayer bond order is a natural extension of the Wiberg bond order, which has proved extremely useful in bonding analysis using semi-empirical computational methods, and the Mulliken population analysis to ab initio theories. The usefulness of the Mayer bond order has been tested in a number of inorganic molecules including sulfur–nitrogen rings,
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