Structures and bonding of pseudohalides

NORA B. OKULIK, ALICIA H. JUBERT AND EDUARDO A. CASTRO

Advances in Quantum Chemical bonding Structures

Transworld Research Network

Lugar: India; Año: 2007;

The study of pseudohalogen-containing compounds has been of interest to nonmetal chemists and theoretical chemists for many years, not only owing to their potential use in various chemical areas and experimental difficulties in their preparation and characterization, but also due to the better understanding of the concept of pseudohalides and the similarities in their structures and properties. The pseudohalide concept was presented in 1925 and from that times its introduction there have been a series of outstanding advances have been made in the experimental and theoretical research areas on pesudohalides. In this review, we present an exhaustive study on structural investigations and theroretical characterizations of several pseudohalide-containing compounds in order to get a suitable improvement of our understanding of the chemical bonding in these compounds.