Chemical bonds and interatomic interactions observed by crystallographs

Abstract

Chemistry, physics, biology, and everything around us—what we are, what we were, and what we will be—matter and its complex states, whether living, dead, inert, or active… are governed by electronic arrangements commonly called chemical bonds and interatomic interactions.

We will attempt to examine these interactions through a crystallographic lens, knowing that X-ray crystallography was the first science to access the infinitely small and allowed scientists to "see" atoms and study their electronic environments formed by bonds and interactions, thus explaining, predicting, and determining the physicochemical and biological properties of substances.