Orbitals of Diatomic Molecules and Electronegativity Perturbation

Molecular Orbitals of Diatomic Molecules and Electronegativity Perturbation 

To examine the workings of electronegativity perturbation, we need to examine the orbitals of a molecule where the atoms are not all identical and where each atom carries more than one atomic orbital. An important feature which results is that of orbital hybridization, namely, the mixing of different atomic orbitals on the same center. In this chapter, we examine the nature of such hybridization, construct the molecular orbitals of diatomic molecules from different viewpoints, and describe the essence of electronegativity perturbations. 

Thomas A. Albright, Jeremy K. Burdett, and Myung-Hwan Whangbo. 

6 MOLECULAR ORBITALS OF DIATOMIC MOLECULES AND ELECTRONEGATIVnY PERTURBATION 

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