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The Heitler‐London description of the covalent bond in H 2
Author(s) -
Adams William H.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/qua.560120823
Subject(s) - covalent bond , wave function , physics , energy (signal processing) , expression (computer science) , atomic physics , computational chemistry , quantum mechanics , chemistry , computer science , programming language
Abstract We show that there is a natural correspondence between the Heitler London energy expressions for H 2 and an energy expression based on localized wave functions. We use this correspondence and rather accurate localized wave functions to verify the Heitler‐London explanation of covalent bonding in H 2 .