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A Pictorial Approach to Molecular Orbital Bonding in Polymers: Non-Mathematical but Honest

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Gordon J. Miller and John G. Verkade

Iowa State University, Department of Chemistry, Ames, IA 50011-3111

J. Chem. Educ., 1999, 76 (3), p 428

DOI: 10.1021/ed076p428

Publication Date (Web): March 1, 1999

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Abstract

The generator orbital (GO) approach is a useful tool for teaching students how to visualize, pictorially, the MO's in a wide assortment of discrete organic, organometallic, metal complex, and cluster molecules possessing a variety of structures. We describe a novel and useful extension of this non-mathematical but honest learning concept to a timely and important class of molecules, namely, polymers. Two examples are treated by our pictorial method: one is s-bonded polyethylene and the other is p-conjugated polyacetylene.

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Upper-Division Undergraduate

Keywords (Domain):

Polymer Chemistry

Keywords (Subject):

Covalent Bonding

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