Saturday, September 16, 2017

theoretical chemistry - Why is the resonance concept not required in molecular orbital theory?


In valence bond theory, resonance plays a pivoting role; why isn't such concept needed in MO theory? Why is it told that "MO theory provides a global, delocalized perspective on chemical bonding"?


(This is a follow up to What is actually the difference between valence bond theory and molecular orbital theory?)




No comments:

Post a Comment

digital communications - Understanding the Matched Filter

I have a question about matched filtering. Does the matched filter maximise the SNR at the moment of decision only? As far as I understand, ...