This course requires considerable reading. You have to read the material suggested in class.

This will depend on current literature. 

Some of the topics covered in this course are covered in the textbooks listed below. Besides the textbooks every effort is made to include relevant current literature in the classes. In order to get these references you have to attend the classes! A few however are listed here Relevant Current Literature.

TEXTBOOKS

 Books

Good books for reference and reading.


Valence
            by C. A. Coulson
            Clarendon Press

Nature of the chemical Bond
            by Linus Pauling
            Cornell University Press

Orbital Interactions in Chemistry
                by Albright, T., Burdett, J.K., and Wangbho
                Wiley

The Organic Chemists Book of Orbitals
            Jorgensen and Salem
            Academic Press

TOCNext PageHome Page