Re: CCL:Seeing molecular orbitals?
- From: Serguei Patchkovskii <patchkov ^at^
ucalgary.ca>
- Subject: Re: CCL:Seeing molecular orbitals?
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:11:38 -0600 (MDT)
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, 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)."
See the essay by S.-G. Wang and W.H.E. Schwarz "On Closed-Shell
Interactions,
Polar Covalences, d Shell Holes, and Direct Images of Orbitals: The Case of
Cuprite", published in Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 2000, 39(10), pages
1757-1762.
They do analyse, in quite some detail, that is *actually* seen in this kind
of experiments - and it is not a direct image of a single molecular orbital.
/Serge.P
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