 Comprehensive definition of oxidation state (IUPAC Recommendations 2016) by Pavel Karen and others

By Pavel Karen, Patrick McArdle, Josef Takats.

Publisher: De Gruyter.

Published in Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Online text: www.cup.lmu.de/ac/kluefers/homepage/L/kc2/literature/iupac_oxidation_state_2016.pdf

Cited passages: Karen, McArdle and Takats, Comprehensive definition of oxidation state (IUPAC Recommendations 2016), §2, pp. 832–833: definition and equal splitting of same-element bonds; §3 and §4.1, pp. 833–834: Allen electronegativity, electron allegiance and the reversible Lewis-acid-ligand caveat; §5.5, pp. 836–837: ambiguous assignments.