Subject: BOND ORDERS

From: "E. Lewars" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 13:09:21 -0400

Re the question about algorithms for bond orders: Dr Istvan Mayer (Central
Research Institute, Hungarian Acad. of Sciences) argues that only his
algorithm really gives correct (sensible?) bond orders.  Thus the
Mayer bond order of H2+ is 0.5 (a 1-electron bond), but (all?) other
approaches give 0.25.   Contact him at 
	[email-masked]
or	[email-masked]

Errol Lewars
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