报告题目：Looking for conceptual connections between bonding at 1 atm and elevated pressures

报 告 人：Roald Hoffmann

报告时间：2022年4月14日上午8：00

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报告摘要：

100 million compounds, one million of which have had their structures determined, is not a bad beginning from which to form a picture of stability and bonding. I will begin a discussion of stability and reactivity, thermodynamic and kinetic, in the structures that are emerging at elevated pressures from that experience.

A second story tries to tease out ways to think about high pressure structures and stoichiometries of alkali metal and alkaline earth halides and hydrides, based mainly on calculations by the Zurek group. This story leads back and forth between elevated and ambient pressure realms, touching on materials as diverse as trihalides, polyhalides,- and Arndt Simon’s alkali metal suboxides, such as Rb9O2, Cs11O3.

Basically, the effect of high pressure is to enforce proximity of atoms. Which means making more “bonds” with the same number of electrons. How to think about that?

Let’s see if I can channel Berndt Matthias in this story.

报告人简介：

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981

Roald Hoffmann studied chemistry at Columbia and Harvard Universities (Ph.D. 1962). Since 1965 he has been at Cornell University, now as the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters. His interests revolve around theoretical chemistry; the electronic structure of organic, inorganic and organometallic molecules, also of one-, two-, and three-dimensional extended structure; and geometrics and reactivity of molecules. He has received many of the honors of his profession, including the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with Kenichi Fukui). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences of USA, et al.

At Cornell, Prof. Hoffmann taught introductory chemistry half of his time. Notable also is his reaching out to the general public; he was the presenter, for example, of a television course in chemistry titled "The World of Chemistry," shown widely since 1990. As a writer, Hoffmann has carved out a land between science, poetry, and philosophy, through many essays, five non-fiction books, three plays and seven published collections of poetry, including bilingual Spanish-English and Russian-English editions published in Madrid and Moscow.

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