When it was published in 1939, The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals: An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry became an instant classic. It was targeted to graduate-level chemistry students for use as a text in upper-division courses, but its impact went far beyond the classroom. The book would change the way scientists around the world thought about chemistry. For the first time, the science was presented as the natural result of quantum mechanics operating at the level of the chemical bond. Observable chemical properties such as melting point, boiling point and bond strength resulted from molecular structure; molecular structure resulted from the bonds that held the atoms in position; and the bonds resulted from the quantum nature of the atom (as understood by physicists).
The book also introduced chemists to the importance of X-ray crystallography as an important tools for determining structure. Before the book's publication, few chemists had taken notice of the arcane art of crystallography; after its publication no chemist could ignore its value.
Author(s): Linus Pauling
Year: 1960
Language: English
Commentary: two indices, illustrated
Pages: 656
Tags: Physical Science;Chemistry;Chemical;Physics;Atoms;Molecular;Molecule;Bonding;Crystal;Crystallography;Quantum mechanics;Nobel prize
Cover
Title
Copyright 1960 3e
Preface to the Third Edition
Contents
1: Resonance and the Chemical Bond
2: The Electronic Structure of Atoms and Covalent Bonds
3: Partial Ionic Character of Covalent Bonds
4: Directed Covalent Bond; Bond Strengths and Bond Angles
5: Complex Bond Orbitals
6: Resonance of Molecules among Several Valence-Bond Structures
7: Interatomic Distances and Their Relation to the Structure
8: Types of Resonance in Molecules
9: Structure and Partial Double-Bond Character
10: One-Electron Bond and the Three-Electron Bond
11: The Metallic Bond
12: The Hydrogen Bond
13: Sizes of Ions and the Structure of Ionic Crystals
14: Summarizing Discussion of Resonance
APPENDICES AND INDICES
A1: Values of Physical Constants
A2: The Bohr Atom
A3: Hydrogenlike Orbitals
A4: Russell-Saunders States of Atoms
A5: Resonance Energy
A6: Wave Functions for Valence-Bond Structures
A7: Molecular Spectroscopy
A8: The Boltzmann Distribution Law
A9: Electric Polarizabilities and ElectricDipole Moments
A10: Magnetic Properties of Substances
A11: Strengths of the Hydrohalogenie Acids
A12: Bond Energy and Bond-DissociationEnergy
Author Index
Subject Index
