There Are No Chemical Bonds, Just Bonded Atoms

R. F. W. Bader, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. L8S 4M1, Canada
WWW:www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/faculty/bader


Vendredi 2 octobre 2009, 16h00
Amphi A1, campus Jussieu



A chemical bond can be neither defined nor measured. Atoms however, are defined by the measurable electron density and when bonded to one another, they are linked by a bond path whose properties are described by the quantum mechanics of an atom in a molecule.