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Pleading for a Dual Molecular‐Orbital/Valence‐Bond Culture
Author(s) -
Hiberty Philippe C.,
Braïda Benoît
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201710094
Subject(s) - pleading , modern valence bond theory , valence bond theory , dual (grammatical number) , valence (chemistry) , orbital hybridisation , non bonding orbital , physics , molecular orbital , art , quantum mechanics , literature , political science , molecule , law
Electron pairs through the looking glass might well discover that they can show two faces, one delocalized or the other localized, and that both are perfectly correct. Going back and forth between these two representations, according to which one is the most relevant and insightful for the case at hand, is easy and essential to get a complete understanding of electronic structure.