Group Theory Applied to Chemistry (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013)

Chemists are used to the operational definition of symmetry, which crystallographers introduced long before the advent of quantum mechanics. The ball-and-stick models of molecules naturally exhibit the symmetrical properties of macroscopic objects. However, the practitioner of quantum chemistry and molecular modeling is not concerned with balls and sticks, but with subatomic particles: nuclei and electrons. This textbook introduces the subtle metaphors which relate our macroscopic understanding of symmetry to the molecular world. It gradually explains how bodily rotations and reflections, which leave all inter-particle distances unaltered, affect the study of molecular phenomena that depend only on these internal distances. It helps readers to acquire the skills to make use of the mathematical tools of group theory for whatever chemical problems they are confronted with in the course of their own research.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling
Release date:	August 2016
First published:	2013
Authors:	Arnout Jozef Ceulemans
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	269
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013
ISBN-13:	978-9402406139
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > States of matter > Condensed matter physics (liquids & solids) Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > Inorganic chemistry > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > Physical chemistry > Quantum & theoretical chemistry
LSN:	9402406131
Barcode:	9789402406139

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