Chemical Bonding in Solids (Memoir of the British Geological)

chemical Bonding In Solids Examines How Atoms In Solids Are Bound Together And How This Determines The Structure And Properties Of Materials. Over The Years, Diverse Concepts Have Come From Many Areas Of Chemistry, Physics, And Materials Science, But Often These Ideas Have Remained Largely Within The Area Where They Originated. One Of The Goals Of This Text Is To Bring Some Of These Ideas Together And Show How A Broader Picture Exists Once Some Of The Prejudices Which Isolate One Area From Another Are Removed. This Book Will Be Ideal For Students Taking Courses In Solid State Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, And Solid State Physics. Title Contents Symbols and Abbreviations 1. Molecules 1.1. The H2 molecule: molecular orbital approach 1.2 The H2 molecule: localized approach 1.3 Energy levels of HHe 1.4 Energy levels of linear conjugated molecules 1.5 Energy levels of cyclic polyenes 1.6 Energy differences and moments 1.7 The Jahn-Teller effects 2. From molecules to solids 2.1 The solid as a giant molecule 2.2 Some properties of solids from the band picture 2.3 Two-atom cells 2.4 The Peierls distortion 2.5 Other one-dimensional systems 2.6 Second-order Peierls distortions 3. More details concerning energy bands 3.1 The Brillouin zone 3.2 The Fermi surface 3.3 Symmetry considerations 4. The electronic structure of solids 4.1 Oxides with the NaCl, TiO2, and MoO2 structures 4.2 The diamond and zincblende structures 4.3 “Localization” of “Delocalized” Orbitals in Solids 4.4 The structure of NbO 4.5 Chemical bonding in ionic compounds 4.6 The transition metals 4.7 The free- and nearly-free-electron models 4.8 Compounds between transition metals and main group elements 4.9 The nickel arsenide and related structures 4.10 Molecular metals 4.11 Division into electronic types 5. Metals and insulators 5.1 The importance of structure and composition 5.2 The structures of calcium and zinc 5.3 Geometrical instabilities 5.4 Importance of electron-electron interactions 5.5 Transition metals and rare earth oxides 5.6 Effect of doping 5.7 Superconductivity in the C60 series 5.8 High-temperature superconductors 6. The structures of solids and Pauling’s rules 6.1 General description of ion packings 6.2 The first rule 6.3 The second rule 6.4 The third rule 6.5 The fifth rule 6.6 The description of solids in terms of pair potentials 6.7 More about the orbital description of silicates 7. The structures of some covalent solids 7.1 Electron counting 7.2 Change of structure with electron count 7.3 Structures of some AX2 solids 7.4 Structures derived from simple cubic or rocksalt 7.5 The stability of the rocksalt and zincblende structues 7.6 The structures of the spinels 7.7 Distortions of the cadmium halide structure: Jahn-Teller considerations 7.8 Distortions of the cadmium haiide structure: trigonal prismatic coordination 7.9 Distortions of the cadmium haiide structure: t2g biock instabiiities 7.10 The rutile versus cadmium halide versus pyrite structures 7.11 Second-order structural changes 8. More about structures 8.1 The structures of the elements in terms of moments 8.2 The structures of some main group intermetallic compounds 8.3 The Hume-Rothery rules 8.4 Pseudopotential theory 8.5 The structures of the first row eiements 8.6 The coloring problem 8.7 Structural stability and band gap References "Chemical Bonding in Solids examines how atoms in solids are bound together and how this determines the structure and properties of materials. Over the years, diverse concepts have come from many areas of chemistry, physics, and materials science, but often these ideas have remained largely within the area where they originated. One of the goals of this text is to bring some of these ideas together and show how a broader picture exists once some of the prejudices which isolate one area from another are removed. This book will be ideal for students taking courses in solid state chemistry, materials chemistry, and solid state physics."--Jacket This textbook offers a clear, pedagogical synthesis of chemical bonding theory and studies considerations in solid state chemistry at the level of the first-year postgraduate.