Electron-Density Distribution in Transition Metal Complexes

Abstract

If we wish to gain insight into the question of what happens when an atom unites with another atom to form a molecule, one of the most direct ways may be to examine the changes which the electronic charge-densities undergo in a process of bond formation. To obtain a measure of this change one can construct a molecule which would result if the atoms making up the molecule were united without perturbing each other, i.e., with spherical charge-density around each nucleus.