Pubblicato in Henry Rzepa's Blog
Autore Henry Rzepa
An N-B single bond is iso-electronic to a C-C single bond, as per below. So here is a simple question: what form does the distribution of the lengths of these two bonds take, as obtained from crystal structures? The Conquest search query is very simple (no disorder, no errors). When applied to the Cambridge structure database (CSD) the following two distributions are obtained.