Valency and Bonding

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-521-83128-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 760 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1467 g

This graduate level text presents the first comprehensive overview of modern chemical valency and bonding theory, written by internationally recognised experts in the field. The authors build on the foundation of Lewis- and Pauling-like localized structural and hybridization concepts to present a book that is directly based on current ab-initio computational technology. The presentation is highly visual and intuitive throughout, based on the recognizable and transferable graphical forms of natural bond orbitals (NBOs) and their spatial overlaps in the molecular environment. The book shows applications to a broad range of molecular and supramolecular species of organic, inorganic and bioorganic interest. Hundreds of orbital illustrations help to convey the essence of modern NBO concepts for those with no extensive background in the mathematical machinery of the Schrödinger equation. This book will appeal to those studying chemical bonding in relation to chemistry, chemical engineering, biochemistry and physics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinhold, Frank

Landis, Clark R.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie Quantenchemie, Theoretische Chemie
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Anorganische Chemie Nichtmetallische Chemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Introduction and Theoretical Background: 1. The Schrödinger equation and models of chemistry; 2. Hydrogen atom orbitals; 3. Many-electron systems; 4. Perturbation theory for orbitals in the Hartree-Fock framework: the donor-acceptor paradigm; 5. Density matrices, natural localized and delocalized orbitals and the Lewis structure picture; 6. Natural resonance structures and weightings; 7. Pauli exchange antisymmetry and steric repulsions; 8. Summary; Part II. Electrostatic and Ionic Bonding: 9. Introduction; 10. Atomic and ionic orbitals; 11. Charge transfer and hybridization changes in ionic bonding; 12. Donor-acceptor theory of hybridization changes in ionic bonding; 13. Ionic/covalent transitions; 14. Ion-dipole and dipole-dipole bonding; 15. Beta ionic compounds of heavy alkaline earths; 16. Ionic bonding in D-block elements; 17. Summary; Part III. Molecular Bonding in the S/P-Block Elements: 18. Introduction; 19. Covalent and polar covalent bonding; 20. Conjugation and aromaticity; 21. Hyperconjugation; 22. Hypervalency; 23. Hypovalency; 24. Summary; Part IV. Molecular Bonding in the D-Block Elements: 25. Introduction; 26. Lewis-like structures for the D-block; 27. Hybridization and molecular shape; 28. Covalent and polar covalent bonding; 29. Coordinative metal-ligand bonding; 30. Hypervalent bonding; 31. Hypovalency and agostic interactions; 32. Conjugative and hyperconjugative effects; 33. Multi-electron coordination; 34. Vertical trends in transition metal bonding; 35. Summary; Part V. Supramolecular Bonding: 36. Introductory overview of intermolecular forces; 37. Hydrogen bonding; 38. Charge transfer complexes; 39. Transition state species; 40. Coupling of intra- and intermolecular interactions; 41. Summary; Appendices.