Molecular Orbital Theory

In our discussion of organic conductors, the notion of molecular orbitals was introduced and used in the Huckel Method. It was interesting that the electrons were treated not as dependent on a single atom, but rather being shared over the whole molecule, that is to say, the electron's motion is influenced by all nuclei in the molecule.

Each such molecule has a set of molecular orbitals, which are simply linear combinations of the atomic orbitals, and the coefficients of these sums (in the linear combination) are found using the Huckel method.