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  • 9: The Chemical Bond: Diatomic Molecules
    • 9.1: The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation Simplifies the Schrödinger Equation for Molecules
    • 9.2: H2+ Is the Prototypical Species of Molecular-Orbital Theory
    • 9.3: The Overlap Integral Is a Quantitative Measure of the Overlap of Atomic Orbitals Situated on Different Atoms
    • 9.4: The Stability of a Chemical Bond Is a Quantum-Mechanical Effect
    • 9.5: The Simplest Molecular Orbital Treatment of H2+ Yields a Bonding Orbital and an Antibonding Orbital
    • 9.6: A Simple Molecular-Orbital Treatment of H2 Places Both Electrons in a Bonding Orbital
    • 9.7: Molecular Orbitals Can Be Ordered According to Their Energies
    • 9.8: Molecular-Orbital Theory Predicts That a Stable Diatomic Helium Molecule Does Not Exist
    • 9.9: Electrons Are Placed into Molecular Orbitals in Accord with the Pauli Exclusion Principle
    • 9.10: Molecular-Orbital Theory Correctly Predicts That Oxygen Molecules Are Paramagnetic
    • 9.11: Photoelectron Spectra Support the Existence of Molecular Orbitals
    • 9.12: Molecular-Orbital Theory Also Applies to Heteronuclear Diatomic Molecules
    • 9.13: An SCF–LCAO–MO Wave Function Is a Molecular Orbital Formed from a Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals and Whose Coefficients Are Determined Self-Consistently
    • 9.14: Electronic States of Molecules Are Designated by Molecular Term Symbols
    • 9.15: Molecular Term Symbols Designate the Symmetry Properties of Molecular Wave Functions
    • 9.16: Most Molecules Have Excited Electronic States