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Past exam of the chemistry course of the year 3 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2022 Paper 2B Section B 36 a ii Solution by
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Treat the site atomic orbitals as orthonormal, as in the Hückel method. A normalized set of symmetry-adapted linear combinations isThe first combination is unchanged by every operation; the alternating combination has the transformation signs of for the printed axes. The last two transform together like . The squared coefficients sum to one in each case, and their pairwise inner products vanish. Any orthogonal rotation of the two combinations is an equally valid basis for that degenerate subspace.
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