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Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 20:35:00 UTC No. 16178852
If the Bohr model is wrong then how the fuck do molecular bonds work?
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 20:41:24 UTC No. 16178862
Orbital overlap therefore wave function overlap
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 01:51:21 UTC No. 16179210
>>16178862
Draw a picture or it's not true.
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 18:42:30 UTC No. 16180265
molecular orbitals
🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 18:44:06 UTC No. 16180270
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 22:50:15 UTC No. 16180646
>>16178852
The Bohr model is like an instantaneous snapshot, therefore the idea of wave function collapse.
It's not wrong, it's just simple for the same ways that a photograph above a billiard table is simple.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 03:23:25 UTC No. 16180910
>>16178852
Basically it is possible to lower the energy of the bond of a nucleus to the electron when an electron is situated in a region between two nuclei — so much that it even overcomes internuclear repulsion of such approximation!
That happens because the wave functions describing the wave behavior of such electron overlap, yielding a wave function with the density of probability of the electron spread across a larger region.
However, this is given to a specific internuclei distance, since if you approach the nuclei too much, repulsion will eventually overcome. So chemical bonding requires a certain geometry of equilibrium.
>>16180646
Agreed. Bohr model is accurate for the radial distribution of a single electron around the nucleus of a hydrogen atom. Sadly, only for that.