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Group theory applied to chemistry /

Chemists are used to the operational definition of symmetry, which crystallographers introduced long before the advent of quantum mechanics. The ball-and-stick models of molecules naturally exhibit the symmetrical properties of macroscopic objects. However, the practitioner of quantum chemistry and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ceulemans, Arnout (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2013]
Series:Theoretical chemistry and computational modelling.
Subjects:
Group theory.
Chemistry > Mathematics.
Symmetry (Physics)
Table of Contents:
  • Operations
  • Function spaces and matrices
  • Groups
  • Representations
  • What has quantum chemistry got to do with it?
  • Interactions
  • Spherical symmetry and spins
  • Appendix A Character tables
  • Appendix B Symmetry breaking by uniform linear electric and magnetic fields
  • Appendix C Subduction and induction
  • Appendix D Canonical-basis relationships
  • Appendix E Direct-product tables
  • Appendix F Coupling coefficients
  • Appendix G Spinor representations
  • Solutions to problems