Relativistic Spin-Orbit Electronegativity and the Chemical Bond Between a Heavy Atom and a Light Atom

Ben Joseph R Cuyacot; Jan Novotný; Raphael J F Berger; Stanislav Komorovsky; Radek Marek

doi:10.1002/chem.202200966

Relativistic Spin-Orbit Electronegativity and the Chemical Bond Between a Heavy Atom and a Light Atom

Chemistry. 2022 Apr 27;28(24):e202200966. doi: 10.1002/chem.202200966. Epub 2022 Apr 12.

Authors

Ben Joseph R Cuyacot^{1

2}, Jan Novotný^{1

2}, Raphael J F Berger³, Stanislav Komorovsky⁴, Radek Marek^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 62500, Brno, Czechia.
² Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 62500, Brno, Czechia.
³ Department of Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Jakob-Haringerstr. 2A, 5020, Salzburg, Austria.
⁴ Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 84536, Bratislava, Slovakia.

PMID: 35411974
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202200966

Abstract

Radek Marek and his co-workers at Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia have been invited to prepare the cover of this issue. The image depicts the relativistic spin-orbit coupling that is associated with the presence of a heavy atom in a molecule influencing the electron density around a light atom and modulating the chemical bond between these two atoms. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202200277.