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Notes on the molecular orbital treatment of linearly coupled systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

C. A. Coulson  and
G. S. Rushbrooke
C. A. Coulson
Affiliation:
Physical Chemistry LaboratoryOxford (Now at King's College, London)
G. S. Rushbrooke
Affiliation:
Chemistry LaboratoryLeeds
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It is well known (1) that for an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the type CnHn+2 (where n is the number of carbon atoms in the linear chain), the theory of molecular orbitals applied to calculate the binding energy of the mobile π-electrons leads to the secular determinant, of continuant type,

where β is the resonance integral between adjacent carbon centres and x stands for the quantity generally written E0 − E, E being the energy of a mobile electron, which we seek to calculate. The equation for the allowed energies E is, of course, simply Pn = 0.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , April 1948 , pp. 272 - 279
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1948

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