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Record 1 1998-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
DEF

... The completely or partly vacant [orbital] of a molecular entity.

OBS

Examination of the mixing of frontier orbitals of reacting molecular entities affords an approach to the interpretation of reaction behaviour; this constitutes a simplified perturbation molecular orbital theory of chemical behaviour.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
DEF

[...] orbitale [...] complètement ou partiellement vacante d'une entité moléculaire.

OBS

L'examen de la combinaison des orbitales frontières d'entités moléculaires intervenant dans une réaction constitue une méthode pour interpréter le comportement réactionnel; ceci est une forme simplifiée de la théorie des perturbations des orbitales moléculaires appliquée aux réactions chimiques.

OBS

LUMO : signe anglo-saxon de "Lowest energy Unoccupied Molecular Orbital" souvent utilisé à la place de BV dans la littérature de langue française.

Spanish

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