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The Significance of Ionic Bonding in Sulfur Dioxide: Bond Orders from X-ray Diffraction Data

Dylan JayatilakaTanja SchirmeisterJ. BuschmannSimon GrabowskyPeter LugerThomas SchneiderAlexandre N. Sobolev

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DiffractionSulfonylchemistry.chemical_classificationMolecular StructureChemistryInorganic chemistryHypervalent moleculeIonic bondingGeneral ChemistryBond orderCatalysischemistry.chemical_compoundX-Ray DiffractionX-ray crystallography540 ChemistryHumansSulfur DioxideMoleculePhysical chemistry570 Life sciences; biologySulfur dioxide

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A novel refinement technique for X‐ray diffraction data has been employed to derive S-O bond orders in sulfur dioxide experimentally. The results show that ionic S-O bonding dominates over hypervalency.

https://dx.doi.org/10.7892/boris.138483