Download or read book Valency and Molecular Structure written by Edward Cartmell and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1977 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION; THE EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDATION OF THE QUANTUM THEORY; ELEMENTARY QUANTUM THEORY; THE HYDROGEN ATOM; QUANTUM THEORY AND THE PERIODIC CLASSIFICATION; THE MOLECULAR ORBITAL METHOD; THE VALENCE-BOND METHOD; DIRECTED VALENCY; IONIC HYDROGEN AND METALLIC BONDS; THE STRUCTURES OF SOME SIMPLE INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; COMPLEX COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONIC SPECTRA OF TRANSITION-METAL COMPLEX; ELECTRON-DEFICIENT MOLECULES.