A Chemist’s Guide to Valence Bond Theory: Insights Into Chemical Bonding, Reactivity, and Excited States

＂This book is designed to explain how to use Valence Bond theory to think concisely and rigorously and how to use VB computations. It is intended for chemists who are not necessarily experts on theory, but have some background in quantum chemistry. It familiarizes the reader with the various VB-based computational tools and methods available today and their use for a given chemical problem. It provides samples of inputs/outputs and instructs the reader on how to interpret the results. Applications discussed in the book include sets of exercises and corresponding answers on, bonding problems, organic reactions, inorganic/organometallic reactions, and bioinorganic/biochemical reactions＂--

Sason Shaik is a Saerree K. and Louis P. Fiedler Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the Hebrew University. He has developed a number of new paradigms and concepts using valence bond theory and participated in the initiation of various valence bond methods.

David Danovich is a senior computational chemist at the Institute of Chemistry in the Hebrew University, and an expert on VB calculations

Philippe C. Hiberty is an Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in the Université Paris-Saclay. He has developed the Breathing-Orbital VB method.