Relativistic Spin-Orbit Electronegativity and the Chemical Bond Between a Heavy Atom and a Light Atom.

Ben Joseph R Cuyacot Jan Novotný Raphael J F Berger Stanislav Komorovsky Radek Marek

Published in: Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2022)

Radek Marek and his co-workers at Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia have been invited to prepare the cover of this issue. The image depicts the relativistic spin-orbit coupling that is associated with the presence of a heavy atom in a molecule influencing the electron density around a light atom and modulating the chemical bond between these two atoms. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202200277.

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