On the Borderline of Pauling's Bond Order Concept: Metal-Metal Bonding in Icosahedral Chains of Metal-Rich Tantalum Sulfides

摘要

Metal-metal bonding in the icosahedral metal-rich sulfides of Ta is considered from the point of view of extended Hückel calculations via Mullikan overlap populations and from the point-of-view of Pauling bond order. It is found that...