Chemistry 475 Help

The following are links to files or web sites, and references that I think may help you. In some cases the references are to more advanced treatments, which you might not find useful now, but which will prove quite helpful if you pursue further study in chemistry.  Please let me know if a link goes nowhere or if it isn't that useful.

Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Spectroscopy

Atkins, P. Physical Chemistry, 6^th Ed.; W. H. Freeman: New York, 1998.

 

Dykstra, C. E. Introduction to Quantum Chemistry; Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994.

 

Edmonds, A. R. Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics; Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1974.

 

Herzberg, G. Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure; Dover: New York, 1944.

 

Levine, I. N. Quantum Chemistry, 3^rd Ed.; Allyn and Bacon: Boston, MA, 1983.

 

Pauling, L. and Wilson Jr., E. B. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Chemistry; Dover: New York, 1963.

 

Review of Simple Bonding Models (Lewis dot structures and VSEPR)

Drawing Lewis dot structures

 

VSEPR

Bonding Models

Many of the references listed above for quantum mechanics also discuss molecular orbital and other bonding theories.

 

Ballhausen, C. J. and Gray, H. B. Molecular Orbital Theory; Benjamin-Cummings: Reading, MA, 1964.

 

Gillespie, R. J. and Popelier, P. L. A. Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry: from Lewis to Electron Densities; Oxford University Press: New York, 2001.

Group Theory

Direct Product Tables

 

Correlation Table for O_h Point Group

 

Point Group Worksheet

Spectroscopy and Physical Methods

Drago, R. S. Physical Methods in Chemistry; Saunders: Philadelphia, PA, 1977.

 

Ebsworth, E. A. V.; Rankin, D. W. H. and Cradock, S. Structural Methods in Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd Ed.; Blackwell Scientific: Boston, MA, 1991.

 

Tanabe-Sugano Matrices

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