Molecular symmetry and group theory
- 2nd ed.
- West Sessex : Wiley, 2001.
- x, 191p. : ill.
Bibliography 173p.; Index 186-191p.; Reprint 2010.
Written in a clear, concise manner, the author introduces a series of programmes that help students learn at their own pace and enable to them understand the subject fully. Readers are taken through a series of carefully constructed exercises, designed to simplify the mathematics and give them a full understanding of how this relates to the chemistry. This second edition contains a new chapter on the projection operator method. This is used to calculate the form of the normal modes of vibration of a molecule and the normalised wave functions of hybrid orbitals or molecular orbitals.
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