Probing Weak Intermolecular Interactions by Using the Invariom Approach: A Comparative Study of s-Tetrazine.

A comparative study of chemical bonding peculiarities in 1,2,4,5-tetrazine was carried out to test the performance of a recently developed invariom approach against a conventional charge density analysis of high-resolution X-ray diffraction data and quantum chemical calculations within the plane-wave functional theory. The amazing similarity between the intermolecular features thus obtained for this van der Waals crystal showed the invariom approximation to now emerge as a fast and convenient way towards reliable description of weak intermolecular interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]