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ArticleChemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2021

In-Situ Electronegativity and the Bridging of Chemical Bonding Concepts.

Stefano Racioppi, Martin Rahm

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Article in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Pressure-driven electronegativity inversion in alkali liquids.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. A Density Functional Theory for the Average Electron Energy.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2023
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  7. Energy Electronegativity and Chemical Bonding.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  8. Electronegativity Equilibration.The journal of physical chemistry. A · 2022
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  9. In-Situ Electronegativity and the Bridging of Chemical Bonding Concepts.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Stefano RacioppiDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Kemigården 4, 41258, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4174-1732
Martin RahmDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Kemigården 4, 41258, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7645-5923

Funding

carl tryggers stiftelse för vetenskaplig forskning 19:294chalmers tekniska högskola
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One challenge in chemistry is the plethora of often disparate models for rationalizing the electronic structure of molecules. Chemical concepts abound, but their connections are often frail. This work describes a quantum-mechanical framework that enables a combination of ideas from three approaches common for the analysis of chemical bonds: energy decomposition analysis (EDA), quantum chemical topology, and molecular orbital (MO) theory. The glue to our theory is the electron energy density, interpretable as one part electrons and one part electronegativity. We present a three-dimensional analysis of the electron energy density and use it to redefine what constitutes an atom in a molecule. Definitions of atomic partial charge and electronegativity follow in a way that connects these concepts to the total energy of a molecule. The formation of polar bonds is predicted to cause inversion of electronegativity, and a new perspective of bonding in diborane and guanine-cytosine base-pairing is presented. The electronegativity of atoms inside molecules is shown to be predictive of pK

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ElectronsBase PairingChemical PhenomenaHydrogen Bondingchemical bondingenergy decomposition analysismolecular orbital theorypKa predictionquantum chemical topology

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PMID34668618
PMCPMC9299076

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