Group Theory Applied to Chemistry

• Main Author: Ceulemans, Arnout Jozef (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling,
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Inorganic chemistry.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Crystallography.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.; Inorganic Chemistry.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Operations
• Function spaces and matrices
• Groups
• Representations
• What has quantum chemistry got to do with it?
• Interactions
• Spherical symmetry and spins.