TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ceulemans,Arnout Jozef
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Group Theory Applied to Chemistry
T2  - Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling,
SN  - 9789400768635
AV  - QD450-801 
U1  - 541.2 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Chemistry
KW  - Inorganic chemistry
KW  - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
KW  - Crystallography
KW  - Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
KW  - Inorganic Chemistry
N1  - Operations -- Function spaces and matrices -- Groups -- Representations -- What has quantum chemistry got to do with it? -- Interactions -- Spherical symmetry and spins
N2  - 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 molecular modeling is not concerned with balls and sticks, but with subatomic particles: nuclei and electrons. This textbook introduces the subtle metaphors which relate our macroscopic understanding of symmetry to the molecular world. It gradually explains how bodily rotations and reflections, which leave all inter-particle distances unaltered, affect the study of molecular phenomena that depend only on these internal distances. It helps readers to acquire the skills to make use of the mathematical tools of group theory for whatever chemical problems they are confronted with in the course of their own research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6863-5
ER  -