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Molecular orbitals, NLA

"Understanding Structure and Reactivity, Part 1"

• Octet rule (and its failure)
• Born-Oppenheimer approximation
• Orbital
• Wavefunction
• Electron density
• Schrödinger equation
• Potential energy curve
• Simple harmonic oscillator, quantum harmonic oscillator
• Zero-point energy
• Valence-bond theory
• Molecular orbital theory
• Linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method
• Normalisation
• Variational principle
• Bond order
• Franck-Condon Principle
• Koopmans' theorem
• Kapustinskii equation
• Born-Haber cycles
• Alkalides

Dihydrogen

• Removing an electron from dihydrogen yields the dihydrogen cation, which has a longer, weaker bond:

H₂ → H₂ + e⁻

External links

• An Introduction to Molecular Orbital Theory
  by Dr Roger Nix of the School of Biological & Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London (www.qmul.ac.uk)

• An Introduction to the Electronic Structure of Atoms and Molecules
  by Dr Richard F. W. Bader (profile) of the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at McMaster University (www.mcmaster.ca) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada