Molecules and Models: The Molecular Structures of Main Group Element Compounds - Hardcover

Haaland, Arne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019923535X ISBN 13: 9780199235353

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book provides a systematic description of the molecular structures and bonding in simple compounds of the main group elements with particular emphasis on bond distances, bond energies and coordination geometries. The description includes the structures of hydrogen, halogen and methyl derivatives of the elements in each group, some of these molecules are ionic, some polar covalent. The survey of molecules whose structures conform to well-established trends is followed by representative examples of molecules that do not conform. It also describes electron donor-acceptor and hydrogen bonded complexes.

Chemists use models to systematize our knowledge, to memorize information and to predict the structures of compounds that have not yet been studied. The book provides a lucid discussion of a number of models such as the Lewis electron-pair bond and the VSEPR models, the spherical and polarizable ion models, and molecular orbital calculations, and it outlines the successes and failures of each.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor Arne Haaland
Department of Chemistry
University of Oslo
Senior lecturer at the University of Oslo from 1963, professor from 1986
Visiting professor at the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) 1975-77
Visiting professor Oregon State University 1982-83
Visiting professor at Universität Tübingen 1992-93

Published 200 research papers on molecular structures and chemical bonding (with 6000 citations)

Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and its human rights committee

Review:

`A light and didactic reading on the structure of molecules of main-group elements. The author has put his four decades of research experience into this book and made excellent use of some 300 representative examples.
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Magdolna Hargittai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

`No other book brings together the analysis of molecules from normal to unusual, and brings together so many different approaches. This book will contribute to increase our critical understanding of molecules, which is very important.'
Odile Eisenstein, University of Montpellier

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 019923535X
• ISBN 13: 9780199235353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304