Liquid alloys with strong chemical interactions

Information about basic chemical interactions and the electronic structure of liquid compounds can be obtained from the study of the appropriate solid compounds. Using this guideline, the properties of alkali-group 1B, IIIB, IVB and VB alloys are discussed and models for band structures are considered. Evidence is provided for a competition between simple octet and clustered configurations. In either of them the band structure appears to be largely determined by the anions. In charge-transfer clustered compounds both the crystal structure and the band structure are closely related to those of the pure elements in the next group of the periodic table