The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals: An Introduction to Modern Structural ChemistryThe Nature of the Chemical Bond provides a general treatment, essentially nonmathematical, of present (as of 1960) knowledge about the structure of molecules and crystals and the nature of the chemical bond. Among the new features in the third edition are a detailed resonating-valence-bond theory of electron-deficient substances, such as the boranes and ferrocene; a chemical theory of the electronic structure of metals and intermetallic compounds; a discussion of the role of the hydrogen bond in the structures of proteins and nucleic acids; the electroneutrality principle; and other new principles of molecular structure. |
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User Review - aevaughn - LibraryThingThis was an excellent back when it was printed, and Linus Pauling actually won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the sorts of things discussed within this book. However, most of the material this book ... Read full review
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This book is one of the Masterpiece in Chemistry.
You simply can not rate this book in stars values. It is one of the EPIC in Chemistry.
I should say it is a bible or Bhagavad-Gita for chemists,
Contents
CHAPTER 11 | 393 |
The Atomic Arrangements in Crystals of Metallic Elements | 409 |
CHAPTER 12 | 449 |
CHAPTER 13 | 505 |
CHAPTER 14 | 563 |
Values of Physical Constants | 573 |
RussellSaunders States of Atoms Allowed by the Pauli Exclusion | 580 |
Resonance Energy | 589 |
CHAPTER 8 | 265 |
The OneElectron Bond and the ThreeElectron Bond | 340 |
A ResonatingBond Treatment of Ferrocene | 386 |
The Boltzmann Distribution Law | 602 |
The Strengths of the Hydrohalogenic Acids | 618 |
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The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals ... Linus Pauling No preview available - 1960 |
The nature of the chemical bond and the structure of molecules and crystals ... Linus Pauling No preview available - 1972 |
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Page 449 - Y, being only about 5 kcal/mole), it has great significance in determining the properties of substances. Because of its small bond energy and the small activation energy involved in its formation and rupture, the hydrogen bond is especially suited to play a part in reactions occurring at normal temperatures. It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are further applied to physiological...
Page 449 - under certain conditions an atom of hydrogen is attracted by rather strong forces to two atoms. instead of only one. so that it may be considered to be acting as a bond between them. This is called the hydrogen bond.
Page 220 - almost entirely empirical, with only the valuable and effective guidance of fundamental quantum mechanical principles'. Pauling emphasized that the theory of resonance in chemistry was an essentially qualitative theory, which: 'like the classical structure theory, depends for its successful application largely upon a chemical feeling that is developed through practice'.99 Pauling himself has repeatedly stressed the rather empirical character of his theory of resonance.
Page 4 - Pharm. 4, 549 (1861), used the term "chemical structure" for the first time and stated that it is essential to express the structure by a single formula, which should show how each atom is linked to other atoms in the molecule of the substance. He stated clearly that all properties of a compound are determined by the molecular structure of the substance and suggested that it should be possible to find the correct structural formula of a substance by studying the ways in which it can be synthesized.
Page 559 - ... and small coordination number and is especially large when the radius ratio approaches the lower limit of stability of the polyhedron.
Page 450 - I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are further applied to physiological problems it will be found that the significance of the hydrogen bond for physiology is greater than that of any other single structural feature.
Page 108 - that of two orbitals in an atom the one which can overlap more with an orbital of another atom will form the stronger bond with that atom, and, moreover, the bond formed by a given orbital will lend to lie in that direction in which the orbital is concentrated.
Page 206 - C6H5R, with R attached to carbon atom 1, the electron distribution may be such as to place an excess or a deficiency of electrons on the various carbon atoms 2 to 6. Moreover, the electron distribution may be changed somewhat on the approach of a group R' to one of the carbon atoms ("polarization" of the molecule by the group).
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals: An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry George Fisher Baker Non-Resident Lecture Series Volume 18 of George Fisher Baker non-resident lectureship in chemistry at Cornell University |
| Author | Linus Pauling |
| Editor | Cornell University Press |
| Contributor | Cornell University |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press, 1960 |
| ISBN | 0801403332, 9780801403330 |
| Length | 644 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Chemistry / General |
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