Is it time to retire the hybrid atomic orbital?

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 860-862

  Grushow, Alexander ^a  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Covalent bonding; First year undergraduate; Misconceptions discrepant events; MO theory; Organic chemistry; Physical chemistry; Theoretical chemistry; Valence bond theory; VSEPR theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960053089     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed100155c     Document Type: Review

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