Three-part introductory text reviews molecular architecture, relating empirical bonding geometries to hybridization of central carbon atom; classifies stereoisomers according to symmetry properties and to nature of their barriers; and explores conceptual basis of asymmetric syntheses and kinetic resolutions. Exercises with answers. 1965 edition. Unabridged republication of the edition originally published by The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, Massachusetts, 1965.
The Irreducible Tensor Method for Molecular Symmetry Groups by J. S. Griffith Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this text covers V coefficients for symmetry groups, W coefficients, irreducible products, two-electron formulae for the octahedral group, X coefficients, more. 1962 edition.