Explore: Electron Orbitals

(magnetic quantum number). The orbitals with a well-defined magnetic quantum number are generally complex-valued. Real-valued orbitals can be formed as linear

molecules Orbital hybridization, a combining of atomic orbitals to form an equal number of hybrid orbitals when forming certain molecules This disambiguation

the electron configuration is the distribution of electrons of an atom or molecule (or other physical structure) in atomic or molecular orbitals. For

bond, the electrons' locations are determined by the molecule as a whole, so the atomic orbitals combine to form molecular orbitals. The electrons from the

valence shell consists of the ns and np orbitals in the outermost electron shell. For transition metals the orbitals of the incomplete (n−1)d subshell are

axis. One common form of this sort of bonding involves p orbitals themselves, though d orbitals also engage in pi bonding. This latter mode forms part of

in 37000 for the electron. Since the electron's wavelength is determined by its momentum, orbitals containing higher speed electrons show contraction

the representation of electron orbitals in molecules and numerous properties that depend on these. The use of Gaussian orbitals in electronic structure

contains only one orbital, and therefore the mℓ of an electron in an s orbital will always be 0. The p subshell (ℓ = 1) contains three orbitals, so the mℓ of

approximating the states of bonded electrons – the molecular orbitals – as linear combinations of atomic orbitals (LCAO). These approximations are made