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This reference on current VB theory and applications presents a practical system that can be applied to a variety of chemical problems in a uniform manner. After explaining basic VB theory, it discusses VB applications to bonding problems, aromaticity and antiaromaticity, the dioxygen molecule, polyradicals, excited states, organic reactions, inorganic/organometallic reactions, photochemical reactions, and catalytic reactions. With a guide for performing VB calculations, exercises and answers, and numerous solved problems, this is the premier reference for practitioners and upper-level students.
This book addresses the problem of teaching the Electronic Structure and Chemical Bonding of atoms and molecules to high school and university students. It presents the outcomes of thorough investigations of some teaching methods as well as an unconventional didactical approach which were developed during a seminar for further training organized by the University of Bordeaux I for teachers of the physical sciences.The text is the result of a collective effort by eleven scientists and teachers: physicists and chemists doing research at the university or at the CRNS, university professors, and science teachers at high-school or university level.While remaining wide open to the latest discoveries of science, the text also offers a large number of problems along with their solutions and is illustrated by several pedagogic suggestions. It is intended for the use of teachers and students of physics, chemistry, and of the physical sciences in general.
Free radicals constitute the most frequently used class of reaction intermediates in organic chemistry. This study describes the structure and reactivity of free radicals, and explores their role in both natural phenomena and in the design of new reaction pathways.
La théorie des groupes est un outil indispensable en chimie permettant de prendre en compte la symétrie moléculaire, ce qui simplifie considérablement le calcul de nombreuses propriétés. Si cette théorie mathématique est très élaborée, son utilisation en chimie ne nécessite cependant pas que l'on en connaisse tous les arcanes. Les auteurs se limitent ici à une présentation succincte des notions mathématiques indispensables et se focalisent sur les applications de cette théorie. L'accent est mis particulièrement sur l'établissement des orbitales moléculaires et la prédiction de certaines propriétés spectroscopiques des molécules. Chaque chapitre est complété par une série d'exercices corrigés.
La mécanique quantique a porté un nouvel éclairage sur la Chimie à partir des années 60, avec le développement de méthodes qualitatives ou semi-quantitatives qu'on convient d'appeler "Chimie Orbitalaire" (K Fukui, R Hoffmann, tous deux prix Nobel en 1981). Diverses expériences nous ont persuadés de l'intérêt pédagogique d'un recours systématique aux orbitales moléculaires dans l'enseignement de la chimie organique, avec des prérequis minimes de "chimie théorique". Aussi présentons-nous un exposé de la Chimie organique élémentaire à partir de la structure orbitalaire des molécules. Nous avons adopté un plan classique par fonction chimique, chaque fonction étant l'occas...
This book starts with the most elementary ideas of molecular orbital theory and leads the reader progressively to an understanding of the electronic structure, geometry and, in some cases, reactivity of transition metal complexes. The qualitative orbital approach, based on simple notions such as symmetry, overlap and electronegativity, is the focus of the presentation and a substantial part of the book is associated with the mechanics of the assembly of molecular orbital diagrams. The first chapter recalls the basis for electron counting in transition metal complexes. The main ligand fields (octahedral, square planar, tetrahedral, etc.) are studied in the second chapter and the structure of ...
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