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Informationen zum Autor Isaac B. Bersuker, PhD, DSc, was a Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Medal of Honor (Republic of Moldova), the David Ben-Gurion Medal (Be'er Sheva University), and the Chugaev Medal (Russian Academy of Sciences). Dr. Bersuker has published 425 peer-reviewed papers, authored 15 books and 35 major reviews, and supervised more than 50 PhD theses. Yang Liu, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology. She conducted her postdoctoral research with Dr. Issac B. Bersuker and Dr. James E. Boggs at the University of Texas at Austin and with Dr. Dong-Sheng Yang at the University of Kentucky. She has broad research interests in theoretical and computational chemistry, photochemistry, and catalytic chemistry, particularly vibronic interaction and symmetry-related research topics for molecules and solid materials with applications in physics, chemistry, environment, and biology. Klappentext "Transition metals commonly refers to 40 chemical elements (21-30, 39-48, 71-80, and 103-112) which represent the transition between group 2 and group 13 elements, are solids at room temperature (except mercury), tend to have high tensile strength, density, and melting and boiling points. Distinguished from pure metallic state with electronic band structures, transition metal elements form a large variety of coordination compounds with an incomplete d-electron subshell leading to different oxidation states, and other special properties. They form also coordination centers in a wide range of atomic formations including important metalo-biochemical centers, activation states of chemical reactions, and serve as good homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysts. Areas of applications of transition metal compounds are innumerable"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Third Editionxvii Extract from the Preface to the Second Editionxix Extracts from the Preface to the First Edition xxiii Foreword to the First Editionxxv Mathematical Symbolsxxvii Abbreviationsxxxiii 1 Introduction: Subject and Methods 1 1.1 Objectives 1 1.2 Definitions of Chemical Bonding and Transition Metal Coordination System 8 1.3 The Schrödinger Equation 13 Summary Notes 16 References 17 2 Atomic States 19 2.1 One-Electron States 19 2.2 Multielectron States: Energy Terms 38 Summary Notes 54 Questions 55 Exercises and Problems 55 References 56 3 Symmetry Ideas and Group-Theoretical Description 59 3.1 Symmetry Transformations and Matrices 60 3.2 Groups of Symmetry Transformations 66 3.3 Classification of Point Groups 67 3.4 Representations of Groups and Matrices of Representations 71 3.5 Classification of Molecular Terms and Vibrations, Selection Rules, and The Wigner-Eckart Theorem 78 3.6 Construction of Symmetrized Molecular Orbitals and Normal Vibrations 83 3.7 The Notion of Double Groups 92 Summary Notes 93 Exercises and Problems 94 References 95 4 Crystal Field Theory 97 4.1 Introduction 97 4.2 Splitting of the Energy Levels of One d Electron in Ligand Fields 99 4.3 Several d Electrons 114 4.4 f-Electron Term Splitting 134 4.5 Crystal Field Parameters and Extrastabilization Energy 137 4.6 Limits of Applicability of Crystal Field Theory 141 Summary Notes 143 Questions 144 Exercises and Problems 145 References 146 5 Molecular Orbitals and Related Description of Electronic Structure 149 5.1 Basic Ideas of the MO LCAO Method 149 5.2 Ch...
