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. 2020 Nov 11;60(3):1498–1502. doi: 10.1002/anie.202010948

Table 1.

Chemical bonding analysis

Chemical Bond

Bond order A‐B

Local spin on A and B

EDA A→B vs A–B

Electron‐sharing

Large

Small/Null

|ΔEorb(A. + .B)|<|ΔEorb(A: + B)|

Donor‐acceptor

Small

Small/Null

|ΔEorb(A. + .B)|>|ΔEorb(A: + B)|

Spin‐Polarized

Small

Medium/Large

|ΔEorb(A. + .B)|<|ΔEorb(A: + B)|