Abstract

Ab initio correlated wavefunction results for the CO 2 molecule are presented, which strongly suggest that the carbon-oxygen double bonds in the molecule are better represented in terms of a pair of “bent bonds” than by a combination of a σ-bond and a π-bond.

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