Orbitals: Some fiction and some facts

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1032-1040

  Autschbach, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

First Year Undergraduate General; Interdisciplinary Multidisciplinary; Misconceptions Discrepant Events; MO Theory; Physical Chemistry; Quantum Chemistry; Second Year Undergraduate; Upper Division Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863665300     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed200673w     Document Type: Article

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