A Chemist's Guide to Valence Bond Theory : Insights into Chemical Bonding, Reactivity, and Excited States

Updated resource on theoretical aspects and applications of valence bond methods to chemical calculations A Chemist's Guide to Valence Bond Theory explains how to use valence bond theory to think concisely and rigorously and how to use VB computations.It familiarizes the reader with the various VB-based computational tools and methods available today and their use for a given chemical problem and provides samples of inputs/outputs that instruct the reader on how to interpret the results.The book also covers the theoretical basis of Valence Bond (VB) theory and its applications to chemistry in the ground- and excited-states.Applications discussed in the book include sets of exercises and corresponding answers on bonding problems, organic reactions, inorganic/organometallic reactions, and bioinorganic/biochemical reactions.This Second Edition contains a new chapter on chemical bonds which includes sections on covalent, ionic, and charge-shift bonds as well as triplet bond pairs, a new ch