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Answer by PAEP for Why is orbital energy not the mean between ionization...
I think the confusion stems from a misunderstanding of the meaning of the orbital energies.Consider the hydrogen atom and its orbitals. You can obtain the energy of the electron in its groudn state...
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The orbital energy simply refers to the ionisation energy. So the orbital energy of the hydride ion should be numerically equal to the electron affinity value of the hydrogen atom.And there is no...
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In this question it is asked why ferrocene is colored when the HOMO-LUMO gap seems to be beyond the visible light range. I tried to answer that orbital energies change with electronic transitions and...
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