Predicting Molecules—More Realism, Please!
Roald Hoffmann, Paul von Ragué Schleyer, Henry F. Schaefer · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2008
To be or not to be: The terms “viable” and “fleeting,” rather than the imprecise term “stable,” are proposed to describe hypothetical molecules whose existence has been predicted by computational studies. A number of criteria that a molecule described as viable should fulfill are discussed.