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SUBMITTER: Durrant MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6054109 | biostudies-other | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
From the inception of Lewis' theory of chemical bonding, hypervalency has remained a point of difficulty that has not been fully resolved by the currently accepted qualitative definition of this term. Therefore, in this work, a quantitative measure of hypervalency has been developed. The only required input is the atomic charge map, which can be obtained from either quantum calculations or from experiment. Using this definition, it is found that well-known species such as O<sub>3</sub>, CH<sub>2 ...[more]