Applications of the Cambridge Structural Database to molecular inorganic chemistry
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Applications of the data in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) to knowledge acquisition and fundamental research in molecular inorganic chemistry are reviewed. Various classes of application are identified, including the derivation of typical molecular dimensions and their variability and transferability, the derivation and testing of theories of molecular structure and bonding, the identification of reaction paths and related conformational analyses based on the structure correlation hypothesis, and the identification of common and presumably energetically favourable intermolecular interactions. In many of these areas, the availability of plentiful structural data from the CSD is set against the emergence of high-quality computational data on the geometry and energy of inorganic complexes.
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Because structural data for TMCs has been widely available for some time, many early descriptors were motivated by analyzing CSD structures, even prior to the development of affordable computational modeling.
“Because structural data for TMCs has been widely available for some time [e.g., from the CSD (25)], many early descriptors were motivated by analyzing CSD structures (76), even prior to the development of affordable computational modeling (e.g., with DFT).”
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- Authors
- Orpen, A. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Orpen, A. Guy
- Venue
- Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science
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- 2002-05-29
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- 58
- Issue
- 3
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- 398-406
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- 0108-7681 (ISSN-L)
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- Topics
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- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Physical and Theoretical Chemistry › Crystallography and molecular interactions
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Inorganic Chemistry › Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds
- Keywords
- Cambridge Structural Database, molecular dimensions, molecular geometry, reaction pathways, conformational analysis, intermolecular interactions, chemical bonding theory, inorganic complexes, crystallographic data
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