In the crystal structure of a new Ruthenium complex, I have intramolecular sulfur-oxygen bonding between two ligands with a pond length of 3.039 °A.
How can I be sure that this is a sulfur–oxygen chalcogen bonding?
Dear Mohammed Zain Aldin sorry to see that your very interesting technical question has not yet received any expert answers. It is not quite clear to me what you mean by "sulfur–oxygen chalcogen bonding". A regular sulfur-oxygen single bond has a bond length of ca. 1.57 Angstrom. Thus the 3.039 Angstrom in your compound can only mean some kind of a secondary bonding, if it's a bond at all. In such case it is advisable to ask the crystallographer at your institution for advice.
Good luck with your work!
Dear Frank T. Edelmann thank you very much for answering my question.
Indeed, Chalcogen bonding has always a long bond length like a hydrogen bond and it's between an (n) orbital of oxygen and the (σ-hole) orbital of sulfur.
I asked this question to see if there is any scientist who can help me to study the property of this Chalcogen bonding in my molecules.
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