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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 22.
Published in final edited form as: Inorg Chem. 2009 Nov 2;48(21):10001–10017. doi: 10.1021/ic901328v

Figure 3.

Figure 3

The molecular orbital diagram of H2 (top) and the energy level diagram for H2 described in the limits of molecular orbital theory (MOT) and valence bond theory (VBT) (bottom). ΔW is the one-electron orbital splitting energy and K is the two-electron exchange energy.