Does the Death Knell Toll for the Metallic Bond?

✍ Scribed by Dr. J. Christian Schön

• Book ID: 101555103
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 357 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.199510811

✦ Synopsis

“The metallic bond still lives!” maintains the author of this highlight. In two recent papers theoreticians argue against the concept of the metallic bond as a distinct type of bond, and favor treating it as a limiting case of the covalent bond based on ab initio descriptions of bonding in solids. Still, J. C. Schön is convinced that the metallic bond, correctly understood as a qualitative concept, will continue to be used by solid‐state chemists.