Valence Bond Calculation of the Barrier to Internal Rotation in Molecules
- 1 December 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 31 (6), 1450-1453
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1730633
Abstract
An approximate calculation of the barrier to internal rotation in ethane was made using a set of covalent valence bond structures involving only s and p orbitals. The calculated result is sufficiently great that it does not appear that other effects are needed to explain the barrier height.Keywords
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