Results of a group theoretical investigation of icosahedral AB12 are presented. These are used in setting up twelve equivalent, orthogonal bond orbitals. Each of the orbitals exhibits a Pauling strength of 3.921. Crystal‐field splitting of valence levels of A is also discussed.
REFERENCES
1.
2.
3.
4.
This paper was translated by M. Kasha, Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
5.
L. Pauling, The Nature of the Chemical Bond (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1960), 3rd ed.
6.
D. S. McClure in Solid State Physics, edited by F. Seitz and D. Turnbull (Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1959), Vol. 9, p. 399;
P. George and D. S. McClure, Progress in Inorganic Chemistry (Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York, 1959), Vol. l, p. 381.
7.
J. S. Lomont, Applications of Finite Groups (Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1959).
The table in Wilson, Decius, and Cross, Molecular Vibrations (McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1955) contains an error.
8.
9.
10.
K. Lonsdale, Crystals and X‐Rays (D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1949).
This content is only available via PDF.
© 1961 American Institute of Physics.
1961
American Institute of Physics
You do not currently have access to this content.
