Organic Chemistry I

Chem 334 - Fall 2009

Methane MOs

Professor Carl C. Wamser

The four bonding MOs of methane are created directly from the 2s and 2p orbitals of carbon overlapping with the four 1s orbitals of the hydrogens (without hybridization).

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