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The way we envision a chemical bond has been revolutionized by the advances in theory over the past few years. This two-volume set provides an overview of the whole field, including the theories and models, as well as examples of chemical bonding across the periodic table.

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Written by top researchers in the field, this two-volume set provides a valuable overview of the whole field, including the theories and models as well as examples of chemical bonding across the periodic table. It takes into account the many developments that have taken place in the field over the past few decades due to the rapid advances in quantum chemical models and faster computers.
Contains the books:
Chemical Bonding - Fundamentals and Models (ISBN: 978-3-527-33314-8
Chemical Bonding - Across the Periodic Table (ISBN: 978-3-527-33315-8)

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CHEMICAL BONDING - FUNDAMENTALS AND MODELS
The Physical Origin of Covalent Bonding
Bridging Cultures
The NBO View of Chemical Bonding
The EDA Perspective of Chemical Bonding
The Valence Bond Perspective of the Chemical Bond
The Block-Localized Wavefunction (BLW) Perspective of Chemical Bonding
The Conceptual Density Functional Theory Perspective of Bonding
The QTAIM Perspective of Chemical Bonding
The Experimental Density Perspective of Chemical Bonding
The ELF Perspective of chemical bonding
Relativity and Chemical Bonding

CHEMICAL BONDING - ACROSS THE PERIODIC TABLE
Chemical Bonding of Main-Group Elements
Multiple Bonding of Heavy Main-Group Atoms
The Role of Recoupled Pair Bonding in Hypervalent Molecules
Donor-Acceptor Complexes of Main-Group Elements
Electron-Counting Rules in Cluster Bonding - Polyhedral Boranes, Elemental Boron, and Boron-Rich Solids
Bound Triplet Pairs in the Highest Spin States of Monovalent Metal Clusters
Chemical Bonding in Transition Metal Compounds
Chemcial Bonding in Open-Shell Transision-Metal Complexes
Modeling Metal-Metal Multiple Bonds with Multireference Quantum Chemical Methods
The Quantum Chemistry of Transition Metal Surface Bonding and Reactivity
Chemical Bonding of Lanthanides and Actinides
Direct Estimate of Conjugation, Hyperconjugation, and Aromaticity with the Energy Decomposition Analysis Method
Magnetic Properties of Aromatic Compounds and Aromatic Transition States
Chemical Bonding in Inorganic Aromatic Compounds
Chemical Bonding in Solids
Dispersion Interaction and Chemical Bonding
Hydrogen Bonding
Directional Electrostatic Bonding

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Gernot Frenking studied chemistry at the Technical University Aachen (Germany). He then became a research student in the group of Prof. Kenichi Fukui in Kyoto (Japan) and completed his PhD and his habilitation at Technical University Berlin (Germany). He was then a visiting scientist at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and a staff scientist at SRI International in Menlo Park, California (USA). Since 1990 he is Professor for Computational Chemistry at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. Sason Shaik is a graduate of the University of Washington (USA), where he also obtained his PhD. After a postdoctoral year at Cornell University, he became Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), where he became Professor in 1988. In 1992 he moved to The Hebrew University where he is Professor and the Director of the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry.

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