A Pictorial Approach to Molecular Bonding and Vibrations [Paperback]

Understanding molecular orbitals (MOs) is a prerequisite to appreciating many physical and chemical properties of matter. This extensively revised second edition of A Pictorial Approach to Molecular Bonding presents the author's innovative approach to MOs, generating them pictorially for a wide variety of molecular geometries. A major enhancement to the second edition is the PC- and Macintosh-compatible Nodegame software, which is coordinated with the text and aids in pictorially teaching molecular orbital theory using generator orbitals.Understanding molecular orbitals (MOs) is a prerequisite to appreciating many physical and chemical properties of matter. This extensively revised second edition of A Pictorial Approach to Molecular Bonding presents the author's innovative approach to MOs, generating them pictorially for a wide variety of molecular geometries. A major enhancement to the second edition is the PC- and Macintosh-compatible Nodegame software, which is coordinated with the text and aids in pictorially teaching molecular orbital theory using generator orbitals.1 The Orbital Picture for Bound Electrons.- 1.1 Traveling and Standing Waves.- 1.2 Wave Energy and Interference.- 1.3 Electron Orbitals.- 1.4 Normalization and Orthogonality.- 1.5 Systems with Many Electrons.- 1.6 Flexibility of Orbital Sets.- 2 Atomic Orbitals.- 2.1 Shapes of Canonical AOs.- 2.2 Sizes of Canonical AOs.- 2.3 Energies of Canonical AOs.- 2.4 Hybrid Orbitals.- 2.5 Hybrid Orbitals through s-p Mixing.- 2.6 Equivalent s1p1 Hybrid Orbitals.- 2.7 Equivalent sp2 Hybrid Orbitals.- 2.8 Equivalent sp3 Hybrid Orbitals.- 2.9 Intermediate Hybrid Orbitals.- 2.10 Accessing Node Game.- 3 Diatomic Molecules.- 3.1 Molecule Formation and Motions.- 3.2 Generator and Molecular Orbitals.- 3.3 Generator Orbitals and Molecular Motions.- 3.4 Bond Strengths.- 3.5 Heteronuclear Diatomic Molecules.- 3.6 Localized MOs for Diatomics.- 4 Linear Triatomic Molecules.- 4.1 Linear FHF?.- 4.2 FXeF.- 4.3 OCO.- 4.4 Vibratl“&