2006/12/4, Oleksandr Voznyy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I still haven't got any reasonable explanation from other people. The only suggestion I hear many times that hybridization concept is oversimplified and you need to think of molecular orbitals rather than simple hybridization of atomic orbitals.
That's more or less true, since the hybrid orbitals are basically a set of linear combinations of atomic functions satisfying a certain localization criterion in a free atom. Perhaps a more physical way to look at things would be to use the maximally localized Wannier functions (which are quite similar but have a more "molecular" meaning).
