Molecules and Models

Haaland (chemistry, U. of Oslo) concentrates on bond distances, bond energies and coordination geometries in this systematic description of about 300 representative compounds in Groups 1 and 2 and 12 through 18. Haaland has gathered his data from hundreds of references and supplies tabulations of structure data, thermodynamic data and atomic energy levels. He begins with the atomic properties of one-electron and two-electron atoms, then explains the atomic properties and periodic trends of atoms with more than two electrons, homonuclear diatomic molecules, gaseous alkali metal haloids with ionic bonds, other heteronuclear diatomic molecules with polar covalent bonds, the Lewis cubical atom model, molecular orbital calculations on heteronuclear diatomic molecules (as well as hybridization and estimation of net atomic charges from calculated electron densities), homonuclear diatomic species of certain second-period elements, structure and bonding (including in simple compounds of the Group 14 elements and those in other Groups), and electron deficient molecules. This is a paperback reprint of a book first published in 2008. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Professor Arne Haaland, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, Norway