Unified Valence Bond Theory of Electronic Structure

One. The Conceptual Power of Molecular Orbital Valence Bond (MOVB) Theory.- 1. The Induced Deexcitation Model.- 2. Why do Organolithium Monomers have Strange Structures?.- 3. The Molecular Orbital-Valence Bond Theory of Excited States.- 4. The “Forbidden” World of Chemistry.- 5. The Concept of Natural Ligand Nonbonded Repulsion. The Ethane Paradigm.- 6. Conformational Isomerism of N2H4 and Derivatives. The Stereochemical Consequences of “Forbiddenness” Removal.- 7. Geometric Isomerism: The Simplest Illustrator of Orbital Symmetry Control of Molecular Stereochemistry.- 8. Structural Isomerism and the Electronic Basis for Ligand Segregation on C2 Cores.- 9. The Saga of “Hypervalent” Molecules.- 10. The Molecular Orbital-Valence Bond Theory of Inorganic Chemistry.- 11. How to build Bridges by Molecular Orbital-Valence Bond Theory: The Structures of A2X4 Molecules.- 12. Why Benzene prefers to substitute and an Olefin ilikes to add?.- 13. Why “Effective” Bonds exist when “Real” Bonds are Absent: The Electronic Structure of the (1.1.1.) Propellane.- 14. The Detailed Electronic Structure of Carbocyclic Molecules and the Concept of Superaromaticity.- 15. The Explicit Theory of “Real” Electrocyclizations of Closed and Open Shell Molecules.- Two. Beyond Monodeterminantal MO Theory.- 16. Frontier Configurations and a New Classification of Annulenes.- 17. Frontier Configuration Theory of Spin Selection.- 18. Why a Net Bond exists when it appears to be Nonexistent: The Electronic Structures of F2 and Inert Gas Fluorides.- 19. Chemical Anticooperativity and Sigma-Pi Hybridization.- 20. The Stereochemical Consequences of Coulomb Polarization in Ground State Molecules.- 21. The Qualitative Rationalization and Prediction of “Correlation Effects” in“Complex” Ground State Molecules.- Epilogue.- Erratum.