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Symmetry through the eyes of a chemist / Istvan Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai.

By: Hargittai, István.
Contributor(s): Hargittai, Magdolna.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Weinheim, Federal Republic of Germany : New York, NY, USA : VCH Verlagsgesellschaft ; Distribution, USA and Canada, VCH Publishers, 1986Description: xii, 458 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 3527264094; 0895735202.Subject(s): Molecular theory | Symmetry (Physics)DDC classification: 541
Contents:
Introduction -- Simple and combined symmetries -- Molecules:shape and geometry -- Helpful mathematical tools -- Molecular vibrations -- Electronic structure of atoms and molecules -- Chemical reactions -- Space group symmetries -- Symmetries in crystals.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 541 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00027620
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item 541 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00029153
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The new edition of this widely praised work presents an entirely revised text and new illustrative material covering the latest developments in the field of chemistry.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Simple and combined symmetries -- Molecules:shape and geometry -- Helpful mathematical tools -- Molecular vibrations -- Electronic structure of atoms and molecules -- Chemical reactions -- Space group symmetries -- Symmetries in crystals.

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CHOICE Review

Symmetry appears everywhere in science, and probably nowhere more than in chemistry. Molecules can have various kinds of symmetry (or none); molecular crystals can present a wide range of symmetrical appearances; and spectroscopists can use a substance's overall symmetry to analyze its molecular spectra. Most importantly, the elegant principles governing the conservation of molecular orbital symmetry are considered to be one of the major chemical discoveries of the 20th century. Yet to this reviewer's knowledge, this book (2nd ed., CH, Apr'96, 33-4511; 1st ed., 1987) is the first to include introductory chapters devoted to each of these manifestations of symmetry. Magdolna Hargittai and Istvan Hargittai (both, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary) provide a variety of examples of symmetry in art and decoration, and use examples from these areas throughout the book to illustrate chemical concepts. This work is useful for academic and professional chemists, and could even be of interest and possible inspiration to designers and artists. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals; general readers. A. Fry Wesleyan University

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