Description
Book SynopsisThis highly-readable book teaches the language of symmetry and its importance in chemical research. Including coverage of more rigorous and advanced topics not found in other books, this timely work provides an up-to-date and easy-to-follow treatment of the application of group therapy to molecular symmetry along with examples.
Trade Review"Ohrn presents a quantum chemistry treatment of group theory. He Explains how general groups and group algebra describe molecules." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 24, No. 4, December 2000)
Table of ContentsThe Group Concept.
Preliminaries about the Symmetric Group.
Algebra Structure.
Outer and Inner Direct Products.
Subduced and Induced Representations.
Point Groups.
Character Tables of Some Point Groups.
Connection to Quantum Chemistry.
The Symmetric Group.
Groups of Constants of Motion.
Coupling of Identical Particles in a Field of Given Symmetry.
Molecular Orbital Theory.
Electron Correlation.
Molecular Vibrations.
Space Groups.
Continuous Groups.
Example of a Noncompact Group and Algebra.
Bibliography.
Problems.
Index.
