JEREMY K. BURDETT, PhD, was Professor and Chair of the Chemistry Department at the University of Chicago. Dr. Burdett was awarded the Tilden Prize and Meldola Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was also a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar and a Fellow of the John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Partial table of contents:
What is the Nature of the Chemical Bond?
What is the Basis of the Model We Use to Describe the Orbital Structure of Molecules?
Why Does the Molecular Orbital Model Often Give the Wrong Products of Dissociation?
How Important are D Orbitals in Main Group Chemistry?
What is the Metallic Bond?
Is the Electronic Description of Solids Just Like That for Large Molecules?
What is the Origin of Huckel's Rule?
What is the Origin of Steric Repulsion?
What is Behind the VSEPR Scheme?
Epilogue.
Index.
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