Analysis of the covalent bond: One center floating functions for the hydrogen molecule ion
โ Scribed by A. C. Hurley
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 553 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7608
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โฆ Synopsis
Abstract
The roles of kinetic and potential energy operators in the formation of a chemical bond are investigated using the virial and electrostatic theorems. It is shown that an integrated form of the virial theorem throws a new light on a paradox involving changes in the mean kinetic energy on bond formation. Detailed calculations on the ground state of H lead to a surprisingly simple electrostatic approximation to the bond. The entire potential curve is given to good accuracy (ca. 80% bond energy) by the electrostatic forces between the two protons and a single, nodeless, spherically symmetric charge cloud representing the electron, provided that, if the bond is stretched beyond about 3.6 a.u. the charge cloud switches suddenly from a central location to a position near one proton.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The acidities, deprotonation energies, of water and methanol were calculated by the use of the ab initio self-consistent-field (SCF) molecular orbital (MO) method with electron correlation computed by the thirdorder Meller-Plesset perturbation method and configuration interaction with double excitat