Spins in Chemistry Book

	Preface	vii
Lecture 1.	The Origin and Development of the Spin Concept	1
	The Stern-Gerlach Experiment	2
	The Formulation of Quantum Mechanics	4
	Expectation Values and Eigenvalues	8
	Properties of the Spin Operators	10
	Spin and Antisymmetry	13
	Spin and Magnetism	16
Lecture 2.	Spin and Valence	23
	Valence Bond Theory	30
	Difficulties and Developments	38
	Concluding Remarks	42
	References	45
Lecture 3.	The Origin of Spin Hamiltonians: A Simple Example	47
	The Dirac Equation	47
	The Breit Equation and Its Reduction	50
	The Spin Hamiltonian: Free Atom	53
	Effect of Crystal Fields	55
	The Effective Hamiltonian	57
	Detailed Solution	59
	The Spin Hamiltonian	63
	Experimental Implications	64
	References	65
Lecture 4.	Spin Density, Spin Populations, and Spin Correlation	67
	Electron Density Functions	68
	Spin Density	76
	Population Analysis	80
	Spin Correlation	85
	References	89
Lecture 5.	Nuclear Hyperfine Effects and Electron Spin-Spin Coupling	91
	A Simple Spin Hamiltonian	92
	General Theory	93
	Contact Hyperfine Coupling	98
	Electron Spin-Spin Coupling	106
	References	109
Lecture 6.	The g Tensor, Chemical Shifts, Nuclear Spin-Spin Coupling	111
	The g Tensor	111
	Chemical Shifts	115
	Nuclear Spin-Spin Coupling	121
	Conclusion	125
	References	127
Appendix	The Interaction of Two Electronic Systems	129
	General Theory	130
	Applications	135
	Nondegenerate Case	136
	Degenerate Case	141
	Conclusion: Charge Density Changes in Colliding Systems	143
	References	148
	Author Index	149
	Subject Index	151