Covalent Bonding and Charge Shift Bonds: Comment on "The Carbon-Nitrogen Bonds in Ammonium Compounds Are Charge Shift Bonds".
Gernot FrenkingPublished in: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2017)
The paper by Gershoni-Poranne and Chen (R. Gershoni-Poranne, P. Chen, Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 4659) gives an incorrect definition of covalent bonding. Furthermore, the assignment of so-called charge shift bonds in ammonium compounds has no physical foundation and is conceptually redundant.
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