Diatomic molecules lithium hydride

D. M. Silver, K. Ruedenberg, and E. L. Mehler, Electron correlation and separated pair approximation in diatomic molecules. 2. Lithium hydride and boron hydride. 7. Chem. Phys. 52(3), 1181— 1205 (1970). 

If we combine the splitting schemes for the 2s and 2p orbitals, we can predict bond order in all of the diatomic molecules and ions composed of elements in the first complete row of the periodic table. Remember that only the valence orbitals of the atoms need be considered as we saw in the cases of lithium hydride and dilithium, the inner orbitals remain tightly bound and retain their localized atomic character. 

Much theoretical work has been carried out on the lithium hydride molecule, which has become the workbench of the theoretical chemist (J ). Browne ( ), and Fraga and Ransil ( 3) have given the binding energy for the LiH ion by ab initio calculation Com-panion(j4) has applied the diatomic-in-molecule theory to the Li H and LiH. molecules and predicted the stabilities of these molecules. We have intensively studied the Li-H system by means of Knudsen effusion mass spectrometry, and identified all predicted molecules and ions as cited above(5), and reported the thermochemical properties of these gaseous species (, 2, ) ... 

In this chapter we shall use lithium hydride, LiH, to discuss the application of the molecular orbital model to a heteronuclear diatomic molecule, and begin by outlining a very simple computational procedure that yields an approximate description of the molecular orbital containing the two valence electrons. We then go on to outline the application of Hartree-Fock (HF) calculations based on a wavefuntion for both the two valence and the two inner-shell electrons. The wavefunction obtained by such calculations indicate that the bonding molecular orbital must be written as a linear combination of the H I5 with both 2s and 2pa atomic orbitals on the Li atom. 

Two different atoms are bonded together in a heteronuclear diatomic molecule. A simple example for a discussion of bonding is lithium hydride, LiH. 

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