CHEM 125a - Lecture 15 - Chemical Reactivity: SOMO, HOMO, and LUMO
Professor McBride begins by using previous examples of “pathological” bonding and the BH3 molecule to illustrate how a chemist’s use of localized bonds, vacant atomic orbitals, and unshared pairs to understand molecules compares with views based on the molecule’s own total electron density or on computational molecular orbitals.