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Combining Solid-state and Solution-based Techniques: Synthesis and Reactivity of Chalcogenidoplumbates(II or IV)
Published on: December 29, 2016
Are halide...halide contacts a feature of rock-salts only?
Yulia V Nelyubina1, Mikhail Yu Antipin, Konstantin A Lyssenko
1A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Vavilov Street, 29, Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
The electron density distribution function in the crystalline hydroxylammonium chloride obtained using the high-resolution X-ray diffraction technique was analyzed by means of Bader's "atoms in molecule" theory. The anion-anion interactions in the crystal of this ionic material were examined and the energy of the Cl-...Cl- contacts was estimated on the basis of the experimental data. The results obtained coincide well with the theoretical calculations and the X-ray diffraction data for the rock-salts. The existence of such type of interactions was shown to be not the unique feature of inorganic salts with point charge cations.
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