Oxygen molecular orbital theory

This could account for the paramagnetism, but esr evidence shows that the 2 cobalt atoms are actually equivalent, and X-ray evidence shows the central Co-O-O-Co group to be planar with an 0-0 distance of l3l pm, which is very close to the 128 pm of the superoxide, 02, ion. A more satisfactory formulation therefore is that of 2 Co atoms joined by a superoxide bridge. Molecular orbital theory predicts that the unpaired electron is situated in a rr orbital extending over all 4 atoms. If this is the case, then the jr orbital is evidently concentrated very largely on the bridging oxygen atoms. 

The development of molecular orbital theory (MO theory) in the late 1920s overcame these difficulties. It explains why the electron pair is so important for bond formation and predicts that oxygen is paramagnetic. It accommodates electron-deficient compounds such as the boranes just as naturally as it deals with methane and water. Furthermore, molecular orbital theory can be extended to account for the structures and properties of metals and semiconductors. It can also be used to account for the electronic spectra of molecules, which arise when an electron makes a transition from an occupied molecular orbital to a vacant molecular orbital. 

Unlike Lewis s theory, molecular orbital theory can account for the existence of electron-deficient compounds and the paramagnetism of oxygen. 

According to molecular orbital theory the valence p-orbitals of the oxygen atoms combine to form three bonding and three antibonding orbitals in molecular oxygen, as shown in Fig. 1. 

Molecular orbitals, in organic semiconductors, 22 211 Molecular orbital theory, 16 737 Molecular orientation, in linear low density polyethylene, 20 188-189 Molecular oxygen, 17 746. See also Oxygen (0)... 

Heterocyclic systems have played an important role in this historical development. In addition to pyridine and thiophene mentioned earlier, a third heterocyclic system with one heteroatom played a crucial part protonation and methylation of 4//-pyrone were found by J. N. Collie and T. Tickle in 1899 to occur at the exocyclic oxygen atom and not at the oxygen heteroatom, giving a first hint for the jr-electron sextet theory based on the these arguments.36 Therefore, F. Arndt, who proposed in 1924 a mesomeric structure for 4//-pyrone, should also be considered among the pioneers who contributed to the theory of the aromatic sextet.37 These ideas were later refined by Linus Pauling, whose valence bond theory (and the electronegativity, resonance and hybridization concepts) led to results similar to Hiickel s molecular orbital theory.38... 

Molecular Orbital Theory Model. Oxygen and hydrogen atoms in H2O are held together by a covalent bond. According to the quantum molecular orbital theory of covalent bonding between atoms, electrons in molecules occupy molecular orbitals that are described, using quantum mechanical language, by a linear combination of... 

With the semiconducting oxides, we expect anionic chemisorption to occur over the lattice cations, and our simple molecular orbital theory will be adequate if the conduction band is associated mainly with the cation lattice. This is certainly the case with AI2O3, where there is direct evidence in the soft X-ray emission spectra that the highest filled band is the oxygen 2p band 16). 

Molecular orbital theory may provide an explanation for stereochemical differences between carboxylate-metal ion and phosphate-metal ion interactions. Detailed ab initio calculations demonstrate that the semipo-lar 1 0 double bond of RsP=0 is electronically different from the C=0 double bond, for example, as found in H2C=0 (Kutzelnigg, 1977 Wallmeier and Kutzelnigg, 1979). The P=0 double bond is best described as a partial triple bond, that is, as one full a bond and two mutually perpendicular half-7r bonds (formed by backbonding between the electrons of oxygen and the empty d orbitals of phosphorus). Given this situation, a lone electron pair should be oriented on oxygen nearly opposite the P=0 bond, and these molecular orbital considerations for P=0 may extend to the phosphinyl monoanion 0-P=0. If this extension is valid, then the electronic structure of 0-P=0 should not favor bidentate metal complexation by phosphate this is in accord with the results by Alexander et al. (1990). 

As predicted by molecular orbital theory dioxygen has two unpaired electrons and some of its chemistry shows diradical characteristics in particular, it reacts readily with other radicals. Singlet oxygen is an excited state in which the two electrons in the p anti-bonding orbitals have paired spins. It produced in some chemical reactions and has different chemical reactivity. 

The most satisfactory treatments of hydrogen bonding use either ab initio or semi-empirical molecular orbital theory. The most stable form of the dimer has the configuration shown in Fig. 1 (Shipman et al., 1974 Stillinger and Lemberg, 1975), It is generally assumed, in the absence of information to the contrary, that in water, ice and hydrates one H-atom is collinear with the two oxygen atoms. 

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