An ab initio study of the bonding in molecular phosphorus and nitrogen

1 January 1970

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society D: Chemical Communications

No. 19,p. 1233-1234
https://doi.org/10.1039/c29700001233

Abstract

All-electron ab initio SCF–MO calculations show that the inclusion of phosphorus 3d-orbitals is not necessary to account for the stability of P₄ with respect to P₂, and also predict the corresponding instability of N₄.

Keywords

NITROGEN
PHOSPHORUS