Planar pentacoordinate silicon and germanium atoms
Menghui Wang, Xue Dong, Zhong‐hua Cui, Mesías Orozco‐Ic, Yi‐hong Ding, Jorge Barroso, Gabriel Merino
Abstract
by more electronegative ones. This change diminishes the repulsion and leads to stronger covalent X-Y bonds, stabilizing the planar pentacoordinate atom species.
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