Electronic Structure of Solids

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1992
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Abstract
Abstract Modern inorganic chemistry is based firmly on the ideas of electronic structure which are provided by the quantum theory of atoms and molecules. The approach used by most chemists is necessarily very approximate, since although quite accurate quantum-mechanical calculations can now be performed on small molecules, the results of these are expressed in terms which are too sophisticated to extend easily to larger systems. Thus, inorganic and organic chemists tend to use the language of approximate molecular orbital theory, and to think in terms of simple models of the filled and empty orbitals of a molecule in order to interpret its structure and properties. This brief account of the electronic structure of solids follows the chemists' approach, and is rather different from the treatment normally given in textbooks on solids. Such books tend to be written by physicists for students of physics, and depend heavily on the properties of free electrons moving in a crystal. As a result, these accounts are somewhat uncongenial to the average chemist, both because they start from a point of view which is too mathematical, and because they stop short of describing the types of complex solid which are of current chemical interest. In the present treatment, solids are discussed using the same simple models, derived from linear combinations of atomic orbitals, as are used in molecular chemistry.
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Authors P. A. Cox
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 1992
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780198551669.003.0001
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198551669.003.0001
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