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Bonding and anti-bonding orbitals exist for ionic bonds
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Modern computational chemistry demonstrates that bonds traditionally classified as ionic frequently possess partial covalent character, involving overlapping atomic orbitals that form bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals.

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DFT Study of the Molecular and Electronic Structure of Metal-Free Tetrabenzoporphyrin and Its Metal Complexes with Zn, Cd, Al, Ga, In
2022 · cited by 24
Paper 3 demonstrates that metal-ligand bonds with significant ionic character also feature covalent orbital contributions such as bonding and antibonding states.
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Although ionic bonding is classically viewed purely through electrostatic attraction, advanced quantum chemical studies (such as DFT and NBO analyses) regularly evaluate ionic bonds for covalent contributions, revealing that molecular orbital descriptions incorporating bonding and anti-bonding orbitals apply across various systems traditionally termed ionic.

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Organic Compounds of Actinyls: Systematic Computational Assessment of Structural and Topological Properties in [AnO2(C2O4) n](2 n-2)- (An = U, Np, Pu, Am; n = 1-3) Complexes.
2019 · cited by 15
Paper 4 discusses actinide-ligand bonds that are primarily ionic yet exhibit measurable orbital interactions including overlap population density of states.
Antiaromaticity-aromaticity transition of cyclo[16]carbon upon metal encapsulation.
2021 · cited by 10
Paper 5 shows that metal-carbon bonds characterized as ionic interactions still involve orbital hybridization and frontier molecular orbitals like in-plane and out-of-plane pi orbitals.
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