After this course, you:
- are able to explain chemical bonding by using Quantum Chemicals Models
- are able to construct and solve molecular orbitals and wavefunctions of covalent, ionic and delocalized bonds using the Variation method
- are able to create and use hybrid orbitals to describe chemical bonds using Valence Bond Theory
- can perform a Hückel calculation by applying symmetry in order to determine the binding energy and delocalization energy
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The chemical bonding in molecules will be explainen through quantummechanics. To do this an introduction is given in Molecular orbital (MO) theory and valence bond (VB) theory for H2. Also the relation between these theories will be discussed. The MO theory is applied to homo- and hetero-nuclear biatomics as well as multiple atomic molecules. Other topics are Pauli-principle, electron spin, Slaterdeterminants and localised vs delocalised bonds. We will discuss the construction and use of hybrid orbitals, and the Hückel model for describing conjugated bonds. |
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