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GROUP THEORY APPLIED TO CHEMISTRY - ARNOUT JOZE...

Chemists are used to the operational definition of symmetry  which crystallographers introduced
long before the advent of quantum mechanics. The ball-and-stick models of molecules naturally
exhibit the symmetrical properties of macroscopic objects. However  the practitioner of quantum
chemistry and molecular modeling is not concerned with balls and sticks  but with subatomic
particles: nuclei and electrons. This textbook introduces the subtle metaphors which relate our
macroscopic understanding of symmetry to the molecular world. It gradually explains how bodily
rotations and reflections  which leave all inter-particle distances unaltered  affect the study
of molecular phenomena that depend only on these internal distances. It helps readers to
acquire the skills to make use of the mathematical tools of group theory for whatever chemical
problems they are confronted with in the course of their own research.

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