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

Hoffmann, Roald.

Solids and surfaces : a chemist's view of bonding in extended structures / Roald Hoffman. - New York, NY : VCH Publishers, 1988. - x, 142 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + hbk.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-138) and index.

Introduction -- Orbitals and bands in one dimension -- Bloch functions, k, band structures -- Band width -- See how they run -- An eclipsed stack of pt(2) square 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 problem:the thcr2si2 structure -- The frontier orbital perspective -- Orbital interaction perspective -- A case study:co on ni(100) -- Barriers to chemisorption -- Chemisorption is a compromise -- Frontiers orbitals in three dimensional extended structures -- More than 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.

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Chemical bonds.
Surface chemistry.
Solid state chemistry.

530.41

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