Interpretation of Band Spectra: Additions and Corrections to Parts I, IIa, and IIb 10. Electron Quantum Numbers and States of Molecules and Their Atoms 9.
Interpretation of Band Spectra, Part III. Interpretation of Band Spectra, Part IIc. Theory of Molecular Energy Levels Effects of Molecular Rotation 7. Interpretation of Band Spectra, Part IIb. Theory of Molecular Energy States for the Case of Fixed Nuclei 6. Interpretation of Band Spectra, Part IIa. Theory of Energy States of Molecule Regarded as Rotating Anharmonic Oscillator 5. The Assignment of Quantum Numbers for Electrons in Molecules 4. Spectroscopy, Molecular Orbitals, and Chemical Bonding Part II. Molecular Scientists and Molecular Science: Some Reminiscences 5. Electrons-what they are and what they do 3. The central focus is on molecular orbital theory, the area in which Mulliken's Nobel-winning discoveries were made."įoreword by D. The last part offers some of the most important papers from the author's postwar publications. These papers develop and apply the concept of hyperconjugation and explore its relation to the concept of conjugation. Part VI is devoted to the problem of hyperconjugation. Reprinted here is a report which Mulliken prepared on notation for polyatomic molecules. The problems addressed in part V center on the spectra and structure of polyatomic molecules. This incorporates Mulliken's work on charge transfer and the halogen molecule spectra. The papers in part IV focus on the intensities of electronic transitions in molecular spectra. Included is a discussion of the structure and spectra of a number of important types of molecules. Part III surveys the author's early work on the bonding power of electrons and the method of molecular orbitals. Part II includes Mulliken's work on band spectra andchemistry as well as his research on the assignment of quantum numbers for electrons in molecules. At the end is a list of his students and other co-workers, and a complete bibliography of his papers. Also reprinted is the text of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Mulliken offers a glimpse of the many famous people whom he has known. Part I contains those papers which are of historical significance. Included in the volume are essays of general as well as scientific interest they are grouped under thematic headings. Professor Mulliken has written introductory commentaries on each of the volume's seven parts. The papers collected here range from suggestive to closely detailed analyses of various topics in the theory of spectra and electronic structure of diatomic and polyatomic molecules. Mulliken, who was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his seminal work on chemical bonds and the electronic structures of molecules. This book brings together in one volume the most important papers of Robert S.