Reply to the ‘Comment on “Uncommon structural and bonding properties in
Ag16B4O10” by A. Lobato,Miguel Á. Salvadó, and J.
Manuel Recio,Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, DOI:
10.1039/D1SC02152D |
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| Authors: | Congling Yin Ulrich Wedig Martin Jansen |
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| Affiliation: | MOE Key Laboratory of New Processing Technology for Nonferrous Metal and Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Optical and Electronic Materials and Devices, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004 P. R. China ; Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstr. 1, 70569 Stuttgart Germany, |
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| Abstract: | Where are the excess electrons in Ag16B4O10?Ag16B4O10 features an exotic scheme of chemical bonding and extends the growing family of subvalent silver oxides. These findings constitute a new general and intrinsic facet of the chemistry of silver, which has not been fully understood, yet, and definitely deserves to be analysed from different perspectives. Against this background, we distinctly appreciate the efforts made by A. Lobato, Miguel Á. Salvadó, and J. Manuel Recio (LSR) in studying these phenomena at the example of the title compound.1 While the computational results presented in the Comment article well comply with those published in our original paper,2 the interpretations follow different routes. Whereas LSR focus on the analogy of pattern of the Electron Localization Function (ELF) in position space in the title compound with those found in elemental silver, we interpreted the electronic structure of Ag16B4O10, both in position and reciprocal space, also considering the interactions between cationic and anionic partial structures. |
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