More than 90 years ago, Linus Pauling published a set of five empirical principles explaining why ionic compounds form the crystal structures that they do. Those principles, now known as Pauling’s ...

Almost a hundred years ago in 1929 Linus Pauling presented the famous Pauling’s Rules to describe the principles governing the structure of complex ionic crystals. These rules essentially describe how ...

According to Pauling's rules, the fragments of the atomic lattice in inorganic materials are connected by vertices", because bonding by faces is the most energy-intensive way to form a chemical ...

Pauling’s chemistry rules ‘more like guidelines’ Nobel laureate Linus Pauling’s ‘rules’ that describe the preferred crystal structures adopted by ionic compounds are more like loose guidelines.

Figure 1. (a), (b) – spatial crystal lattices of co-enzymes, (c) – “unwrapped” lattice with clearly visible fragments of SiO6, paradoxically connected by the faces. According to Pauling’s rules, the ...