Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry - HOMO-LUMO gap

Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry

HOMO-LUMO gap: The energy difference between a molecule's Highest energy Occupied Molecular Orbital (HOMO) and its Lowest energy Unoccupied Molecular Orbital (LUMO).

Related terms: Conjugation, ground state, excitation, excited state, photon, photochemistry, SOMO, Woodward-Hoffmann rules, Diels-Alder reaction, ΔΕ
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