An Introduction to the Electronic Structure of Atoms and Molecules

Dr. Richard F.W. Bader 
Professor of Chemistry / McMaster University / Hamilton, Ontario


Preface
1.  The Nature of the Problem
2.  The New Physics
3.  The Hydrogen Atom
4.  Many-Electron Atoms
5.  Electronic Basis for the Properties of the Elements
6.  The Chemical Bond
7. Ionic and Covalent Binding
  •  Introduction
  •  Classification of Chemical Bonds
  •  Molecular Charge Distribution of Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules
  •  Dipole Moments and Polar Bonds
  •  Electronegativity
  •  Interaction Between Molecules
  •  Literature References
  •  Further Reading
  •  Problems
  •  Appendix
8.  Molecular Orbitals
Table of Contour Values
 



Further Reading

L. Pauling, The Nature of the Chemical Bond, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N. Y., 1960, third edition.