Abstract
Just as the electronic configuration of an atom is built up by stepwise population — electron by electron — of hydrogen-like atomic orbitals, that of a diatomic molecule is constructed by successively filling the molecular orbitals derived from the hydrogen molecule ion, H+ 2[1].
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References [1-7] of Chapter 2 all go on to deal with diatomic molecules.
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Halevi, E.A. (1992). Diatomic Molecules and Their Molecular Orbitals. In: Halevi, E.A. (eds) Orbital Symmetry and Reaction Mechanism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83568-1_3
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