| Molecular Modelling and Bonding | |
| Introduction | p. 9 |
| Molecular Mechanics | p. 11 |
| Ionic solids | p. 11 |
| Crystal defects in silver chloride | p. 12 |
| Zeolites | p. 14 |
| Modelling organic molecules | p. 16 |
| Summary of Section 2 | p. 19 |
| Quantum Chemistry of Atoms | p. 20 |
| Atomic orbitals | p. 23 |
| Orbitals of atoms other than hydrogen | p. 28 |
| Summary of Section 3.1 | p. 32 |
| Calculating atomic orbitals | p. 33 |
| Hybrid orbitals | p. 34 |
| Summary of Section 3.3 | p. 37 |
| Molecular Orbitals | p. 38 |
| Orbitals in diatomic molecules | p. 38 |
| Bonding and antibonding orbitals | p. 41 |
| Summary of Section 4.1.1 | p. 42 |
| Molecular orbitals from s orbitals | p. 43 |
| Molecular orbitals from p orbitals | p. 47 |
| Summary of Sections 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 | p. 53 |
| Homonuclear molecules of the first and second rows of the Periodic Table | p. 54 |
| The molecule C[subscript 2] | p. 56 |
| Summary of Section 4.2 | p. 58 |
| Homonuclear diatomic molecules of later rows | p. 58 |
| Heteronuclear diatomic molecules | p. 60 |
| Summary of Section 4.4 | p. 66 |
| Polyatomic Molecules | p. 67 |
| Unsaturated organic molecules | p. 67 |
| Delocalized [pi] orbitals in inorganic molecules | p. 71 |
| Electron-deficient molecules and three-centre bonds | p. 72 |
| Bonding in the water molecule | p. 73 |
| Summary of Section 5 | p. 75 |
| Symmetry and Molecular Orbital Calculations | p. 76 |
| Rotation | p. 76 |
| Reflection | p. 80 |
| Inversion | p. 82 |
| Symbols for symmetry elements | p. 83 |
| Summary of Sections 6.1-6.4 | p. 84 |
| Symmetry point groups | p. 85 |
| Summary of Section 6.6 | p. 88 |
| Symmetry and orbitals | p. 89 |
| Calculations in Practice | p. 91 |
| Bonding in Solids | p. 93 |
| Metals | p. 93 |
| Free electron model | p. 93 |
| Molecular orbital theory of solids | p. 95 |
| Semiconductors | p. 98 |
| The band structure of diamond and silicon | p. 100 |
| Compound semiconductors | p. 103 |
| Summary of Sections 8.1 and 8.2 | p. 104 |
| Photoconductivity | p. 105 |
| Impurity semiconductors | p. 107 |
| Summary of Sections 8.4 and 8.5 | p. 110 |
| Blue diamonds | p. 110 |
| Learning Outcomes | p. 111 |
| Questions: Answers and Comments | p. 113 |
| Further Reading | p. 123 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 124 |
| Case Study: Molecular Modelling in Rational Drug Design | |
| Introduction | p. 127 |
| Structure-Based Methods for Unknown Drug Active Sites | p. 131 |
| Quantitative structure--activity relationships (QSAR) | p. 131 |
| Active analogues | p. 133 |
| Methods for Known Active Sites | p. 135 |
| GRID | p. 135 |
| Multicopy simultaneous search | p. 137 |
| Examples of Structure-Based Design | p. 139 |
| HIV-protease inhibitor drugs | p. 139 |
| Renin inhibitors | p. 139 |
| Approaches to anti-HIV drugs | p. 139 |
| Designing an HIV-I protease inhibitor | p. 141 |
| De novo drug design | p. 144 |
| The Future | p. 147 |
| Further Reading | p. 148 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 148 |
| Index | p. 149 |
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