[CHM 111] MO Diagrams

[Andrew J. Pounds]

I got an e-mail yesterday asking about MO diagrams .  Since the actual 
construction of the orbital correlation diagram and predicting the 
energetic positions of the molecular orbitals is a bit beyond Gen Chem, 
I will provide you with the basic molecular orbital diagram.   I could 
easily ask you to label all of the orbitals and populate them with 
electrons from a the two interacting atoms.  If you can properly 
populate it with electrons then you should also be able to easily answer 
questions related to bond order, etc.

I have provided an example problem from an exam I gave several years 
ago.  Please review it.


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*/Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D./*
/Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science/
/Director of the Computational Science Program/
/Mercer University/
/1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, GA 31207 /
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