Subject: Re: CCL:Seeing molecular orbitals?

From: Jörg Grunenberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:20:20 +0100

Jens Spanget-Larsen wrote:

>
> In a recent, most interesting publication ('Seeing molecular orbitals',
> Chem.Phys.Letters 321, 78-82 [2000]) scanning tunneling microscopy is used to
> observe the shapes of single molecular orbitals of the fullerene C60:
>
>   "..the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is probing a single molecular
>   orbital (MO)."
>
> Any comments?
>
> Yours, Jens >--<
>

Hi,

this paper just shows that the symmetry of the calculated HOMO for a distorted C60
molecule resembles the symmetry of the total electron density measured by an STM
experiment. Is there anything new?

I do not know why people in any case  want to see artifacts of a particularly
theory, which is based on the independent particle model.

Jörg

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