Is Chemistry Really Founded in Quantum Mechanics?

TL;DR

This paper explores whether the traditional chemical understanding of molecules is fundamentally based on quantum mechanics by examining the connection between chemical models and quantum eigenfunctions.

Contribution

It analyzes the relationship between chemical descriptions of molecules and their quantum mechanical eigenfunctions, clarifying foundational assumptions.

Findings

Chemical models are compared to quantum eigenfunctions.

Discussion on the validity of quantum mechanics as the basis of chemistry.

Abstract

The relationship between the chemical picture of an isolated molecule and that arising from the eiegenfunctions of the Schrodinger Coulomb Hamiltonian ror the isolated molecule are examined and discussed.