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Experimental charge density evidence for pnicogen bonding in a crystal of ammonium chloride

Yulia V Nelyubina1, Alexander A Korlyukov, Konstantin A Lyssenko

  • 1X-ray Diffraction Centre and Quantum Chemistry Department, A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Vavilova Str. 28, Moscow (Russia). unelya@xrlab.ineos.ac.ru.

Chemphyschem : a European Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry
|December 19, 2014
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Keywords:
X-ray diffractionelectron density distributionpnicogenssigma-hole interactionstopological analysis

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