Valence molecular orbitals

Discuss, briefly, the valence molecular orbitals of AIH2 and the shape of the molecule in the ground and first excited singlet states. 

In the present work a theory for the facile construction of complex molecular orbitals from bond and group orbitals is presented and complemented by accurate drawings of the valence molecular orbitals for over one hundred molecules representing a wide range of connectivities and functional groupings. Direct applications to phenomena in organic chemistry are also discussed. 

A Removing an electron from Li2 removes a bonding electron because the valence molecular orbital diagram for Li2 is the same as that for H2, only it is just moved up a principal quantum level aub[U o,/ o2ib[U o2i Q. The molecular orbital diagram for Li2+ is ... 

Fig. 2.6-1. Calculated valence molecular orbitals of tetrahedral P4 (isodensity surface drawn at a cut off of 0.05 a.u.). Only one representation of the similar degenerate MOs is given.

Calculated Eigenvalues and Percentage Character of Valence Molecular Orbitals for FCIO3 ... 

Table III also lists higher IPs calculated via KT and NOF-EKT methods. In general, the NOF-EKT and KT results are systematically larger than the experimental values. The behavior of higher IPs is quite similar to that for the first IP results, discussed previously. For most molecular orbitals, NOF-EKT values are smaller than KT and greater than the experimental data. There are molecular orbitals—for example, orbital n for CO and orbital bi for H2CO—with NOF-EKT values greater than KT and the experimental data. The exception is P2, for which the NOF-EKT Og IP is decreased. The agreement of NOF-EKT and KT IPs with the experimental values is less precise for inner valence molecular orbitals, but again the NOF-EKT IPs move closer to experimental data.

The electrostatic potential surface for trimethylamine results from a single non-bonded valence molecular orbital (the HOMO), while the electrostatic potential surfaces for dimethyl ether and methyl fluoride result from a combination of two and three high-lying non-bonded molecular orbitals, respectively, i.e. 

In the simplest picture of chemical bonding, the valence molecular orbitals (ftj are constructed as linear combinations of valence atomic orbitals X x according to the LCAO-MO formula ... 

In the simplest picture of chemical bonding, the valence molecular orbitals ( >i are... 

As an example we can take the excited states of NO. It has been shown that there are two excited states of the same symmetry ( 11) whose vibrational levels are best interpreted on the basis of diabatic curves which cross as in Fig. 1 (75-7 7). One of these states (B) arises from the electron excitation to an antibonding valence molecular orbital and the other (C) from excitation to a Rydberg orbital. The Born-Oppenheimer adiabatic curves cannot cross (by virtue of the non-crossing rule which is to be discussed in a later section) and must fullow the dashed curves shown in the figure. 

The valence molecular orbitals of trihydrides (AH3) occur in order of in-... 

TABLE 6. Valence molecular orbital energies0 and Mulliken populations in H3PCH2 determined by calculation at various theory levels ... 

Molecular oxygen (or dioxygen) O2 and related species are involved in many chemical reactions. The valence molecular orbitals and electronic configurations of the homonuclear diatomic species O2 and Oj are shown in Fig. 16.1.1. 

TABLE 11. Ionization energies (eV) for ionizations from the valence molecular orbitals of EHal2 and their assignmentsa... 

Fig. 8.27. A contour plot of the 3h ( valence ) molecular orbital of the HjS molecule (see Giordan et al., 1986, for further discussion).

Simons and co-workers proposed the first theoretical model of LEE-induced strand break formation by modeling C5 -0 sugar-phosphate bond dissociation in 5 -dTMP and 5 -dCMP. > According to Simons et /., the initial attachment of the electron occurs in a n valence molecular orbital (shape resonance) in the pyrimidine base. Electron transfer occurs from the base to a a molecular orbital of the C5 -0 bond as C-O bond elongation takes place, thereby leading to... 

The valence molecular orbitals of cyclopropane accessible to the helium lamp are 18 in number derived from H(ls) (13.6 eV), C(2s) (19.5 eV) and C(2p) (10.7 eV), they span the following irreducible representations of the point group. 

The occurrence of four bands in the photoelectron spectrum of H2O, for the valence electrons, can thus be made compatible with the classical structure for the molecule, although a more rigorous approach should also consider possible interactions between functionsand i, as we shall see later in this chapter. We shall further recognize that, within the molecular orbital framework, the four independent functions are, in fact, the (non-localized) valence molecular orbitals. 

FIGURE 2. Shape of valence molecular orbitals of aniline. Due to its Cs symmetry, the MOs are characterized by a and a" irreducible representations, but they are continuously numbered without dividing them into two subsets, s denotes the orbital energy computed using the HF/6-311++G(d,p) wavefunction... 

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