molecular geometry: geometry vs. measured vs. QM

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Scaffold — to be filled from BSM-SG (main book) chapter by chapter.

The claim under test: molecular geometry follows from the geometry and packing of proton substructures — you can see the next atom’s shape in your head, no orbital cartoons. The honest test is symmetric: a geometric picture that postdicts a known shape (“roughly tetrahedral because the prisms pack that way”) is doing exactly what hybridization does with lobes — the thing BSM-SG rightly calls retrofit. To beat QM, geometry has to output the number from structure, with no fitted constant, and match the diffractometer.

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molecular geometry: geometry vs. measured vs. QM