Using Quantum Mechanics To Facilitate the Introduction of a Broad Range of Chemical Concepts to First-Year Undergraduate Students

Romualdo T. deSouza* and Srinivasan S. Iyengar*

Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States


ABSTRACT: 

A first-year undergraduate course that introduces students to chemistry through a conceptually detailed description of quantum mechanics is outlined. Quantization as arising from the confinement of a particle is presented and these ideas are used to introduce the reasons behind resonance, molecular orbital theory, degeneracy of electronic states, quantum mechanical tunneling, and band structure in solids and quantum dots.


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