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

8. Molecular Orbitals

• Introduction

• Angular Momentum in Diatomic Molecules

• Symmetry Considerations

• Molecular Orbitals for Homonuclear Diatomics

• The Relative Binding Ability of Molecular Orbitals

• Molecular Orbitals for Heteronuclear Molecules

• Molecular Orbitals for Polyatomic Molecules

• Further Reading

• Problems

Table of Contour Values

Further Reading

1.	C. A. Coulson, Valence, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 1961.
2.	J. N. Murrell, S. F. A. Kettle and J. M. Tedder, Valence Theory, John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 1965.
3.	L. Salem, The Molecular Orbital Theory of Conjugated Systems, W. A. Benjamin Inc., 1966, Chapter 1.

The first two references provide an elementary mathematical introduction to valency. The first chapter of reference 3 provides an introduction to Hückel theory for conjugated molecules.