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Insight into covalent bonds from electrostatic perspective
I try to understand, from the electromagnetic side only, how the molecule could be more stable than each atom, and concluded that it could not. Where is my mistake?
Here is an illustration :
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Hybridisation and the Schrödinger equation
I am slightly confused about hybridisation and how it relates to molecular and atomic orbitals, despite having pored through many sources online. I was hoping someone could verify whether my current ...
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'In MO theory, electrons are treated as spreading throughout the entire molecule'- isn't it exhibited in VB theory also?
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In the molecular orbital theory, the valency electrons are considered to be associated with all the nuclei in the molecule. - Concise Inorganic Chemistry by J.D.Lee.
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