Ionic-covalent transition in titanium oxides

The nature of the chemical bond in three titanium oxides of different crystal structure and different formal oxidation state has been studied by means of the ab initio cluster-model approach. The covalent and ionic contributions to the bond have been measured from different theoretical techniques. A...

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Autores: Sousa Romero, Carmen, Illas i Riera, Francesc
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1994
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/10854
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/10854
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Estructura electrònica
Enllaços químics
Òxids metàl·lics
Funcions d'ona
Electronic structure
Chemical bonds
Metallic oxides
Wave functions
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Sumario:The nature of the chemical bond in three titanium oxides of different crystal structure and different formal oxidation state has been studied by means of the ab initio cluster-model approach. The covalent and ionic contributions to the bond have been measured from different theoretical techniques. All the analysis is consistent with an increasing of covalence in the TiO, Ti2O3, and TiO2 series as expected from chemical intuition. Moreover, the use of the ab initio cluster-model approach combined with different theoretical techniques has permitted us to quantify the degree of ionic character, showing that while TiO can approximately be described as an ionic compound, TiO2 is better viewed as a rather covalent oxide.