Solids and surfaces : a chemist's view of bonding in extended structures

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Hoffmann, Roald
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY : VCH Publishers, 1988.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN0895737094
9780895737090
3527269053
9783527269051
0471187100
9780471187103
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 142 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Orbitals and bands in one dimension
  • Bloch functions, k, band structures
  • Band width
  • See how they run
  • An eclipsed stack of Pt(II) squares planar complexes
  • The Fermi level
  • More dimensions, at least two
  • Setting up a surface problem
  • Density of states
  • Where are the electrons?
  • The detective work of tracing molecule-surface interactions: decomposition of the DOS
  • Where are the bonds?
  • A solid state sample: ThCr2Si2 structure
  • The frontier orbital perspective
  • Orbital interaction on a surface
  • A case study: CO on Ni(100)
  • Barriers to chemisorption
  • Chemisorption is a compromise
  • Frontiers orbitals in three-dimensional extended structures
  • More than one electronic unit in the unit cell, folding bands
  • Making bonds in a crystal
  • The peierls distortion
  • A brief excursion into the third dimension
  • Qualitative reasoning about orbital interactions on surfaces
  • The Fermi level matters
  • Another methodology and some credits
  • What's new in the solid.