Complementary Bonding Analysis: Bonding Descriptors in Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Crystallography

As chemical bonds are not observable, there are various theories and models for their description. This book presents a selection of conceptually very different and historically competing views on chemical bonding from quantum chemistry and quantum crystallography – a complementary bonding analysis. The book not only explains the principles behind the methods but also provides practical examples of how to derive bonding descriptors with modern software and of how to interpret them.