The QTAIM Perspective of Chemical Bonding

The Chemical Bond: Fundamental Aspects of Chemical Bonding

Volumn 9783527333141, Issue , 2014, Pages 271-308

  Popelier, Paul Lode Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bond critical point; Bond path; Electron density; Energy partitioning; Exchange correlation energy; IQA; Kinetic energy; Laplacian; QTAIM; Quantum Chemical Topology (QCT); Topological atom; Virial theorem

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; TOPOLOGY;

BOND CRITICAL POINTS; BOND PATHS; ENERGY PARTITIONING; EXCHANGE CORRELATION ENERGY; INTERACTING QUANTUM ATOM; LAPLACIANS; QUANTUM ATOMS; QUANTUM CHEMICAL TOPOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY OF ATOMS IN MOLECULES; TOPOLOGICAL ATOM; VIRIAL THEOREMS;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION;

EID: 84926406079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527664696.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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