Discovering Chemistry With Natural Bond Orbitals

Weinhold (emeritus, physical and theoretical chemistry) and Landis (inorganic chemistry, both U. of Wisconsin-Madison) explain how students with little background in quantum mechanics can explore modern chemical bonding and valency concepts more accurately and with more sophistication than many common textbooks. They describe modern wavefunction or density functional technology as translated into familiar chemical language through natural bond orbital analysis. Among their topics are electrons in atoms, hybrids and bonds in molecules, resonance and delocalization corrections, nuclear and electronic spin effects, intermolecular interactions, and excited state chemistry. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

FRANK WEINHOLD, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. Professor Weinhold has served on the editorial advisory boards of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry and Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry. He is the author of more than 170 technical publications and software packages, including the natural bond orbital program.

CLARK R. LANDIS, PhD, is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. He has received teaching and lectureship awards for his contributions to chemical education. Dr. Landis's research focuses on catalysis in transition metal complexes.