THE RENNER-TELLER EFFECT

RENNER, R.

Zur Theorie der Wechselwirkung zwischen Elektronen- und Kernbewegung bei dreiatomigen, stabförmigen Molekülen.

Berlin, Springer, 1934. 8vo. In contemporary halv cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 92, 1934. Entire volume offered. Stamp to front free end-paper, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 172-93. [Entire volume: VIII, 830 pp.].

First appearance of Renner's seminal paper containing what was to become known first as the Renner effect, later the Renner-teller effect. It was the first work to study the dynamic effects that go beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, in which the nuclear and electronic motions in a molecule are uncoupled.

Because Renner is the only author of the 1934 paper that first described the effect, it was long called the Renner effect. However, as Herzberg's prestigious books refer to it as the Renner-Teller effect (after Edward Teller), it is now more common to use both names.

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