Posts Tagged ‘chemical phenomena’

A wider look at chlorine trifluoride: crystal structures and data mining.

Friday, June 10th, 2016

A while ago, I explored how the 3-coordinate halogen compound ClF3 is conventionally analyzed using VSEPR (valence shell electron pair repulsion theory). Here I (belatedly) look at other such tri-coordinate halogen compounds using known structures gleaned from the crystal structure database (CSD).

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Deviations from planarity of trigonal carbon and from linearity of digonal carbon.

Sunday, September 13th, 2015

Previously, I explored deviation from ideal tetrahedral arrangements of four carbon ligands around a central (sp3) carbon using crystal structures. Now it is the turn of digonal (sp1) and trigonal (sp2) carbons. 

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