Table of Contents

1. Atomic Structure
2. Atomic and Molecular Properties
3. The Valence Bond and Hybrid Orbital Descriptions of Chemical Bonding
4. The Molecular Orbital Theory of Electronic Structure and the Spectroscopic Properties of Diatomic Molecules
5. Electronic Structures, Photoelectron Spectroscopy, and the Frontier Orbital Theory of Reactions and Polyatomic Molecules
6. Transition-Metal Complexes
7. Bonding in Solids and Liquids
Appendices
Answers to Selected Questions and Problems
Index

About the Author

ROGER L. DEKOCK, Calvin College, USA
HARRY B. GRAY, California Institute of Technology, USA