On the calculation of bond energies from atomization energiesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: data for attempted fittings and exact and calculated atomisation energies for the final model. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b0/b007657k/
Abstract
It is possible (and occasionally preferable) to define bond energies of polyatomic molecules by dissociation of the molecule at a given bond into two radical fragments, e.g. for a tetra-atomic molecule ABCD.