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- Takes a mathematical approach to understanding group theory
- Includes exercises
- Goes back to basics
- Takes a didactic approach
- Written for advanced undergraduates and Masters students
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling (TCCM)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
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“The material in the book is organized into seven chapters. … In the end of the book, the reader will find solutions to problems, references and an index. … it provides a valuable source of information for motivated graduate students and researchers interested in applications of group theory in chemistry.” (Yuriy V. Rogovchenko, zbMATH, Vol. 1304, 2015)Authors and Affiliations
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Division of Quantum Chemistry Department of Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Arnout Jozef Ceulemans
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Group Theory Applied to Chemistry
Authors: Arnout Jozef Ceulemans
Series Title: Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6863-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0613-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6863-5Published: 03 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2214-4714
Series E-ISSN: 2214-4722
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 269
Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Crystallography and Scattering Methods, Inorganic Chemistry