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doi:10.1351/goldbook.HT07051 IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology Copyright © 2010 IUPAC hypercoordination A property of main-group atoms in molecular entities to acquire coordination numbers greater than four (which would comply with the Lewis octet rule). Hypercoordination may be associated with hypervalency, but usually is referred to peculiar atomic centres in the electron-deficient species with multicentre σ-bonding, in which the bonding power of a pair of electrons is spread over more than two atoms. An example of a hypercoordinated atom is the five-coordinate carbon atom in the methanium cation, where three C–H bonds may be regarded as normal two center - two electron bonds and the bonding in the remaining CH 2 fragment is governed by the three-centre, two- electron bond. A particular case of a hypercoordinated atom is the hydrogen atom included into a hydrogen bond. Source: PAC, 1999, 71, 1919 (Glossary of terms used in theoretical organic chemistry) on page 1945

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doi:10.1351/goldbook.HT07051

IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology Copyright © 2010 IUPAC

hypercoordinationA property of main-group atoms in molecular entities to acquire coordination numbersgreater than four (which would comply with the Lewis octet rule). Hypercoordinationmay be associated with hypervalency, but usually is referred to peculiar atomic centresin the electron-deficient species with multicentre σ-bonding, in which the bondingpower of a pair of electrons is spread over more than two atoms. An example of ahypercoordinated atom is the five-coordinate carbon atom in the methanium cation,where three C–H bonds may be regarded as normal two center - two electron bondsand the bonding in the remaining CH2 fragment is governed by the three-centre, two-electron bond.

A particular case of a hypercoordinated atom is the hydrogen atom included into ahydrogen bond.

Source:PAC, 1999, 71, 1919 (Glossary of terms used in theoretical organic chemistry) onpage 1945