| Reviews |
| - 'It is simple, quantitative, intuitive, and predictive - no more than a pocket calculator is needed to calculate it.' - Current Engineering Practice
- 'This is the first book to explore the theoretical basis of the model and to show how it can be applied to synthetic and solution chemistry ... neatly crystallizes concepts, precisely defines these concepts and brings to the fore many phenomena that can be described by the bond-valence model. The book is ably supplemented by a list of 300 references.' - Current Engineering Practice
- '... there has long been a need for a dedicated monograph on the subject ... a highly readable book about a theory that, though it has long found application in inorganic crystal chemistry, deserves to be used more widely.' - Crystallography News
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| Description | | - Presents a simple model of chemical bonding
- Intuitive and predictive analysis of crystal structures
- Modelling of local as well as extended structures
- Widespread applications in phyiscs, materials science, chemistry, mineralogy, soil science, molecular biology
| | This book describes the bond valence model, a description of acid-base bonding which is becoming increasingly popular particularly in fields such as materials science and mineralogy where solid state inorganic chemistry is important. Recent improvements in crystal structure determination have allowed the model to become more quantitative. Unlike other models of inorganic chemical bonding, the
bond valence model is simple, intuitive, and predictive, and can be used for analysing crystal structures and the conceptual modelling of local as well as extended structures. This is the first book to explore in depth the theoretical basis of the model and to show 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 analysing the chemistry of solids. Many applications of the model in physics, materials science, chemistry, mineralogy, soil science, surface science, and molecular biology are reviewed. The final chapter describes how the bond valence model relates to and represents a simplification of other models of inorganic chemical bonding. |
Readership: Graduate students, lecturers, and professionals in crystallography, chemistry, condensed matter physics, materials science, mineralogy, and molecular biology.
| Contents |
Prologue
1.
Historical introduction
I. Theory
2.
The ionic bond
3.
The bond valence model
II. Chemistry
4.
Anion and cation bonding strengths
5.
Liquids
6.
Cation coordination number
7.
Hydrogen bonds
8.
Electronically distorted structures
9.
Physical properties of bonds
III: Solids
10.
Space and space groups
11.
Modelling inorganic structures
12.
Lattice-induced strain
IV. Applications and implications
13.
Applications
14.
Chemical implications of the bond valence model
Appendices
A. Bond valence parameters
B. Space group spectra
C. Solution of the network equations
D. Cation and anion bonding strengths
E. References to the ICSD and the CSD
References
List of Symbols
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
I. David Brown, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University (Emeritus)
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