Chemists are used to the operational definition of symmetry, which crystallographers introduced long before the advent of quantum mechanics. The ball-and-stick models of molecules naturally exhibit the symmetrical properties of macroscopic objects. However, the practitioner of quantum chemistry and molecular modeling is not concerned with balls and sticks, but with subatomic particles: nuclei and electrons. This textbook introduces the subtle metaphors which relate our macroscopic understanding of symmetry to the molecular world. It gradually explains how bodily rotations and reflections, which leave all inter-particle distances unaltered, affect the study of molecular phenomena that depend only on these internal distances. It helps readers to acquire the skills to make use of the mathematical tools of group theory for whatever chemical problems they are confronted with in the course of their own research.
Additional ISBNs
978-94-007-6863-5
Group Theory Applied to Chemistry Ebook
By: Arnout Jozef Ceulemans
Publisher:
Springer
Print ISBN: 9789400768628, 9400768621
eText ISBN: 9789400768635, 940076863X
Copyright year: 2013
Format: PDF
Available from $ 48.00 USD
SKU: 9789400768635R180
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