Orbital bonding and antibonding

Bonds interact with one another in molecules. The bond interactions are accompanied by the delocahzation of electrons from bond to bond and the polarization of bonds. In this section, bond orbitals (bonding and antibonding orbitals of bonds) including non-bonding orbitals for lone pairs are shown to interact in a cychc manner even in non-cychc conjugation. Conditions are derived for effective cychc orbital interactions or for a continuous orbital phase. 

Electrons Behave as Waves Standing Waves in One and Two Dimensions Standing Waves in Three Dimensions Atomic Orbitals Mixing Atomic Orbitals into Molecular Orbitals Bonding and Antibonding MOs of Hydrogen... 

A masterpiece written by a Nobel Prize winner, one of the founders of solid-state quantum chemistry. Solid-state theory was traditionally the domain of physicists. Some concepts typical of chemistry, such as atomic orbitals, bonding and antibonding effects, chemical bonds, and localization of orbitals, were usually absent in such descriptions. They are highlighted in this book. 

Figure 26.3 Schematic representation of the formation of two molecular orbitals (bonding and antibonding) by combination of two atomic H(ls) orbitals. The lowering of the energy with respect to that of the atomic orbital level leads to the chemical bond...

Shape and Energy of H2 Molecular Orbitals Bonding and antibonding MOs have different shapes and energies. Figure 11.14 shows these orbitals for H2 ... 

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