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New Lewis Structures through the application of the Hypertorus Electron Model
The hypertorus electron model is applied to the chemical bond. As a consequence, the bond topology can be determined. A linear correlation is found between the normalized bond area and the bond energy. The normalization number is a whole number. This number is interpreted as the Lewis's electron pair. A new electron distribution in the molecule follows. This discovery prompts to review the chemical bond, as it is understood in chemistry and physics
ELECTRICAL ChARGES AS CATALySTS OF ChEMICAL REACTIONS ON A SOLID SuRFACE
Purpose. To determine the change dependency of the potential energy of the chemical bond of a diatomic molecule on the value of the point charge and its distance to the bond using quantum mechanical calculation.
Methodology. Numerical simulation of a quantum mechanical system consisting of a point charge and a diatomic
molecule interacting with each other.
Findings. The quantum-mechanical problem of the effect of an external Coulomb center on the chemical bond of
diatomic molecules is solved.
Originality. A quantum mechanical model of a physical system consisting of three interacting Coulomb centers
(there is a chemical bond between two of them) is developed. The model makes it possible to understand the dynamics of the interaction of a molecule with an ion, the charge of which can be characterized by either integers or fractional numbers. The change in the energy of the chemical bond in the ion field depending on the distance to the bond
and the magnitude of the charge is established.
Practical value. The developed technique for calculating the energy of a chemical bond as a function of the magnitude of the electric charge was used in the development of the method for growing single crystals of metastable diamond, in calculating the limits of the chemical bond stability in metal azides, in developing the way of additional
harmful gases formation during rock blasting and in calculating the stability of nanoscale hydrocarbon chains in coal,
and others. The method can be used to decide on the catalyst and control the catalytic reactions
The New Resonating Valence Bond Method for Ab-Initio Electronic Simulations
The Resonating Valence Bond theory of the chemical bond was introduced soon
after the discovery of quantum mechanics and has contributed to explain the
role of electron correlation within a particularly simple and intuitive
approach where the chemical bond between two nearby atoms is described by one
or more singlet electron pairs. In this chapter Pauling's resonating valence
bond theory of the chemical bond is revisited within a new formulation,
introduced by P.W. Anderson after the discovery of High-Tc superconductivity.
It is shown that this intuitive picture of electron correlation becomes now
practical and efficient, since it allows us to faithfully exploit the locality
of the electron correlation, and to describe several new phases of matter, such
as Mott insulators, High-Tc superconductors, and spin liquid phases
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