The Chemical Bond in Inorganic Chemistry: The Bond Valence Model

by I. David Brown

Overview

The bond valence model, a description of acid-base bonding, is widely used for analysing and modelling the structures and properties of solids and liquids. Unlike other models of inorganic chemical bonding, the bond valence model is simple, intuitive, and predictive, and is accessible to anyone with a pocket calculator and a secondary school command of chemistry and physics. This new edition of 'The Chemical Bond in Inorganic Chemistry: The Bond Valence Model' shows how chemical properties arise naturally from the conflict between the constraints of chemistry and those of three-dimensional space. The book derives the rules of the bond valence model, as well as those of the traditional covalent, ionic and popular VSEPR models, by identifying the chemical bond with the electrostatic flux linking the bonded atoms. Most of the new edition is devoted to showing how to apply these ideas to real materials including crystals, liquids, glasses and surfaces. The work includes detailed examples of applications, and the final chapter explores the relationship between the flux and quantum theories of the bond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191093050
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	09/29/2016
Series:	International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography , #27
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

David Brown is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Historical introduction
2. The flux theory of the chemical bond
3. The bond valence model
4. Cation coordination number
5. Hydrogen bonds
6. Liquids
7. Electronically distorted structures
8. Physical properties of bonds
9. Space and space groups
10. Modelling inorganic structures
11. Steric strain
12. Applications
13. Chemical implications
App. 1. Bond valence parameters
App. 2. Space group spectra
App. 3. Refcodes
App. 4. Glossary

Editorial Reviews

The valence bond model is a description of acid-base bonding useful in fields such as materials science and mineralogy. This book outlines the theoretical basis of the model and shows how it can be applied to synthetic and solution chemistry. It emphasizes the separate roles of the constraints of chemistry and of three-dimensional space by analyzing the chemistry of solids. Many applications of the model in physics, materials science, chemistry, mineralogy, soil science, surface science, and molecular biology are reviewed. A final chapter explains how the bond valence model relates to and represents a simplification of other models of inorganic chemical bonding. Brown is professor emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Canada. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

"[T]here has long been a need for a dedicated monograph on [bond valence]. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the structure of solids, including crystallographers, structural chemists and materials scientists. Professor Brown has written a highly readable book about a theory that ... deserves to be used more widely."—Crystallography News

"The valence bond model is a description of acid-base bonding useful in fields such as materials science and mineralogy. This book outlines the theoretical basis of the model and shows how it can be applied to synthetic and solution chemistry. It emphasizes the separate roles of the constraints of chemistry and of three-dimensional space by analyzing the chemistry of solids. Many applications of the model in physics, materials science, chemistry, mineralogy, soil science, surface science, and molecular biology are reviewed. A final chapter explains how the bond valence model relates to and represents a simplification of other models of inorganic chemical bonding. Brown is professor emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Canada."—SciTech Book News

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