Retire hybrid atomic orbitals?

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 569-

  DeKock, Roger L ^a   Strikwerda, John R ^a  

^a CALVIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Covalent bonding; First year undergraduate general; Inorganic chemistry; Misconceptions discrepant events; MO theory; Organic chemistry; Physical chemistry; Second year undergraduate; Upper division undergraduate; Valence bond theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861548243     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed200472t     Document Type: Article

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