Quantum-mechanical description of chemical bonding: linear combinations of atomic orbitals form delocalised molecular orbitals occupied according to the Aufbau principle. Explains paramagnetism of O₂, bond orders, and spectra where…
Molecular-orbital theory
Related concepts
- Covalent bond
- Schrödinger equation
- VSEPR theory
- Aromaticity (Hückel rule)
- Aromaticity (Hückel rule)
- Ligand-field theory
- Resonance
- Schrödinger equation
- Pauli exclusion principle
- Sigma (σ) bond
- Pi (π) bond
- Wittig reaction
- Woodward–Hoffmann rules
- Frontier molecular orbital (FMO) theory
- Walsh diagrams (AH₂, AH₃)
- 3c-2e bonding (boranes, bridging H)
- Hyperconjugation
- Hückel aromaticity (4n+2)
- Charge-transfer complexes
- Hypervalent 3c-4e bonding