Chemical Bond and Bonding 2015
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2015) | Viewed by 165276
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2. Laboratory of Renewable Energies-Photovoltaics, R&D National Institute for Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter–INCEMC–Timisoara, Str. Dr. Aurel Podeanu 144, 300569 Timișoara, Romania
Interests: quantum physical chemistry; nanochemistry; reactivity indices and principles; electronegativity; density functional theory; path integrals; enzyme kinetics; QSAR; epistemology and philosophy of science
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Dear Colleagues,
“A chemical bond is not a real thing: it does not exist: no-one has ever seen it, no-one ever can. It is a figment of our own imagination”—so it appeared in 1951 the “Coulson’s dream”, legitimated by the plethora of physical-chemistry theories rooted in three inter-related directions:
(I) The first continues Lewis’ (1916) intuition, according to which the Coulomb law changes its nature in electronic pairs of chemical bonding, thereby opening electronic correlation issues;
(II) The Pauling (1939) insight on ionic and covalent resonance characters, which nowadays feeds into the charge shift models of Shaik, Hiberty et al.;
(III) The variational Heitler and London (1927) model, which triggered self-consistent molecular orbitals approaches, i.e., chemical density functional theory and delocalization models.
Accordingly, current and future endeavors should unify these equally challenging quantum nano-approaches of chemical bonding by involving synergetic concepts and methods: atoms-in-molecules, natural orbitals applied to electron density, bosonization of electrons into quantum condensates of the chemical bonding field, molecular topology, chemical reactivity, nano-chemical synthesis, and quantum information theory, etc.
We kindly invite you to contribute papers expanding on these and allied concepts for a better understanding and control of chemical bonds for a sustainable environment and life in the 21st century.
Dr. Habil. Mihai V. Putz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chemist’s bond order
- alternant hydrocarbons
- aromaticity
- bond alternation
- bond order indices
- bonding analysis
- bondons
- breathing orbitals
- C-C bond
- chemical bonding fields
- chemical forces
- chemical Hamiltonian approach
- cycloaromatization
- density functions
- Diels-Alder and Cope transition states
- diffuse functions
- dipole moment
- DNA and protein
- dynamical polarization
- effective core potentials
- electron correlation
- electron delocalization
- electron density
- electron pair
- electron sharing
- electronegativity
- electronic reorganization
- electronically excited states
- electrostatic interaction
- energy decomposition analysis
- fragment molecular orbital
- fuzzy atoms
- Hellmann-Feynman theorem
- HF, CASVB, B3LYP, CASSCF, MCQDPT, VBSCF, SCF-MI, VBCI, VBPCM, BOVB, Quantum Monte Carlo etc. calculations
- Hückel MO-model
- hybridization
- hydrogen binding
- hypervalency
- ligand binding
- localized wave function
- magnetic properties
- Möbius systems
- multicenter index
- multireference character
- natural bond orbital analysis
- natural population analysis
- nondynamical correlation
- nucleus independent chemical shift
- octet rule
- pericyclic reactions
- potential energy surfaces
- pseudopotentials
- quantum similarity
- quasi-particles of chemical bonding
- reactivity
- rehybridization
- resonance energy
- ring-opening barrier
- Rydberg orbitals
- s-character
- second quantization
- secondary orbital interactions
- shared pair bond
- sigma trans promotion effect
- spin-coupling
- stereoelectronic effects
- strain
- topological matrix
- transition metal complex
- two-electron/four-centers
- valence bond theory
- valence indices
- variational analysis
- virial theorem
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