Theoretical evaluation of electron delocalization in aromatic molecules by means of atoms in molecules (AIM) and electron localization function (ELF) topological …

J Poater, M Duran, M Sola, B Silvi - Chemical reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
Benzene is the emblematic example of an aromatic molecule, and the problem of its
structure has given rise to a chemical serial story running over several decades. The …

The topological analysis of the electron localization function. A key for a position space representation of chemical bonds

B Silvi, I Fourré, ME Alikhani - Monatshefte für Chemie/Chemical Monthly, 2005 - Springer
The purpose of the topological theory of Chemical Bonding is to provide a mathematical
bridge between chemical concepts, such as bonds and lone pair, and rigorous Quantum …

The synaptic order: a key concept to understand multicenter bonding

B Silvi - Journal of molecular structure, 2002 - Elsevier
The concept of multicenter bond is paradoxically counter intuitive in chemistry because most
of chemistry and molecular physics is thought in terms of two body interactions. Moreover …

Topological analysis of the electron localization function (ELF) applied to the electrophilic aromatic substitution

F Fuster, A Sevin, B Silvi - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2000 - ACS Publications
The topological analysis of the electron localization function ELF provides a partition of the
molecular space into basins of attractors which have a clear chemical signification. The …

Chemical bonding in hypervalent molecules: is the octet rule relevant?

S Noury, B Silvi, RJ Gillespie - Inorganic chemistry, 2002 - ACS Publications
The bonding in a large number of hypervalent molecules of P, As, S, Se, Te, Cl, and Br with
the ligands F, Cl, O, CH3, and CH2 has been studied using the topological analysis of the …

The joint use of catastrophe theory and electron localization function to characterize molecular mechanisms. a density functional study of the Diels− Alder reaction …

S Berski, J Andrés, B Silvi… - The Journal of Physical …, 2003 - ACS Publications
The catastrophe theory has been used to investigate the reorganization of the localization
basins, within the electron localization function formalism, along the intrinsic reaction …

Topological descriptors of the electron density and the electron localization function in hydrogen bond dimers at short intermonomer distances

LF Pacios - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2004 - ACS Publications
Geometries for five dimers linked by O− H⊙⊙⊙ O hydrogen bonds (HBs) are optimized in
MP2/6-311++ G (d, p) ab initio calculations for several short intermonomer distances R …

The ELF perspective of chemical bonding

Y Grin, A Savin, B Silvi - The Chemical Bond: Fundamental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The electron localization function (ELF) identifies regions of space that can be associated
with electron pairs. It is usually obtained from quantum mechanical calculations, and helps …

Theoretical study of a new group of corrosion inhibitors

B Gómez, NV Likhanova… - The Journal of …, 2005 - ACS Publications
In the present work, the molecular interactions of four amino acid compounds were
simulated through the density functional theory (DFT) indexes to study their inhibitive …

Understanding the Molecular Mechanism of the 1, 3‐Dipolar Cycloaddition between Fulminic Acid and Acetylene in Terms of the Electron Localization Function and …

V Polo, J Andres, R Castillo, S Berski… - Chemistry–A European …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The potential‐energy profile of the 1, 3‐dipolar cycloaddition of fulminic acid and ethyne has
been investigated theoretically within the framework provided by the electron localization …