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The Chemical Educator
ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 10
Issue 1 (2005) pp 15-21
Visualizing Molecular Orbitals
Carl W. David
Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut,
Storrs,
Connecticut 06269-3060, Carl.David@uconn.edu
Received February 18, 2004. Accepted
October 31, 2004.
Published online: 19 January 2005
Abstract. Orbitals that are not centered on the origin are hard to visualize. Techniques for visualizing (a priori) multicentered molecular orbitals are presented to help the learning of the relationship between textbook cartoons of MOs and actual quantitative representations of them.
Key Words: In the Classroom; physical chemistry; quantum mechanics
(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: Carl.David@uconn.edu)
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Issue date: February
1, 2005
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