Luciangamer - 25-10-2007 at 20:12
Since bonding is so important in chemistry, I want to get a book strictly on bonding theory to help my understanding. Chem 207 I'm taking now touches
on hybridization and molecular orbitals so minimally it hurts.
So specifically, a book that deals strictly with chemical bonding that a noob might be able to understand, so the more qualitative than quantitative
aspects. A cheap price wouldn't hurt either seeing as I'm broke
chemrox - 25-10-2007 at 20:57
Pretty much any book with Molecular Orbital Theory in the title that isn't too loaded with math (unless you enjoy quantum theory). Look for one that
is well illustrated and has clear, concise writing. Sorry I on't have titles at hand. But a lot of people here will. A college bookstore should
have used copies of a good book on the subject. What is Chem 207?
Luciangamer - 25-10-2007 at 21:02
It's an intro chem course for freshman. I took AP chem junior year of HS but it was a joke. Chem 207 is much more intensive but it's still very basic.
I will take a quantitative approach later but I won't be taking quantum mechanics until junior year or maybe sophomore year if I try and squeeze in
the prerequisites over the summer, but I'm already planning on taking a summer course.
The reason I'm asking people on this forum is because I'm kind of skeptical of what Amazon.com tells you. I feel I've been duped by their descriptions
a couple of times in the past and hopefully someone here can understand what I'm looking for
chemrox - 25-10-2007 at 21:59
Right you are- don't trust advertisements by people who don't know the material. The level of MO book you're looking for is usually one of the texts
in the first or second college chem course in the chem major (pre-med) series. I'l try t find the one I used .. I liked it so much I kept it all
these years, tutored from it .. taught from it .. and there are others like it. Don't neglect the net either.. I just found this:
http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch8/mo....
not bad as an introduction.
Mumbles - 29-10-2007 at 23:05
We've been learning some more advanced bonding theory in my Inorganic Chem class from a symetry perspective. I can't recomend the book really, as we
are being taught another method. I will see if I can find where the proceedure comes from. It is based upon group theory. The math is excedingly
less complex(at least at this point) that it may appear to be on the surface. It's actually very neat to see how things actually interact, but not so
neat when having to use these to make real molecular orbital diagrams. I believe what we are using is called the method of unmoved orbitals, kinda
weird, but it seems to work alright.
Nitrogen monoxide suddenly goes from this: http://employees.csbsju.edu/hjakubowski/classes/ch331/oxphos...
To this: http://www.chm.davidson.edu/ChemistryApplets/MolecularOrbita...
Ozone - 30-10-2007 at 15:22
The Conservation of Orbital Symmetry
Woodward, R.B. and Hoffmann, R. (1970)
Academic Press
Cheers,
O3
guy - 30-10-2007 at 15:48
FYI, hybridization is not really how bonding works, its just useful for predicting geometries of organic and other simple compounds.
MO Book - very good one
chemrox - 21-11-2007 at 19:33
I found a book, quite a few years ago, that I consider a really good one on MO theory. It covers al the background, did I say, "all?" Shame on me.
It covers the bakground in sufficient mathematical detail and addresses the areas most useful to chemists very well. The graphics are good and that's
imprtant to me. It talks about group theory which is necessary to spectroscopists, but doesn't require a thorough appreciation in order to apprehend
the essential concepts. It is not for the mathematically challenged but what physical chemistry book is? It is, Quanta, by PW Atkins, Oxford
University Press, Oxford, etc.