Stack Exchange network consists of 176 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. I mean, he lives close to the library, right?”, Oh, all right. Now, it can be detected easily which MO, formed due to the overlapping of s-s or p-p orbitals, is gerade or ungerade as shown in these pics: But what about the molecular orbitals formed due to the overlapping of s-p orbitals or p-d orbitals? Inglish. I still didn’t get it, but anyway. They all express the same but they’re idiomatic in different contexts and phrasings. If the sign of the lobes remains the same, the orbital is gerade, and if the sign changes, the orbital is ungerade. And this time we’ll complete our look at the meanings of. Those MOs simply cannot be labelled as g or u. MOs of non-centrosynmetric molecules (i.e. Ahhh… I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Do native speakers use the phrase "set channels"? So, at the very beginning we’ve learned that eben is about even-ness in both senses, flat-ness and equality. Dude! the centre of symmetry with respect to phase of wave functions then the orbitals are gerade otherwise ungerade. Discouraged by advisor to take courses, is there a way to navigate through this situation? But in reality, it’s not so much the same. In the first part we had a look at the normal meanings of the words and we learned the three things that we need to make sense of all the crazy meanings of those words. The better way to do it is to check what happens under inversion ($i$ or $\bar 1$). The words right, straight, just and exactly can all express exactly-ness but that doesn’t mean that they’re interchangeable all the time. An alternative method for determining the symmetry of the molecular orbital is to rotate the orbital about the line joining the two nuclei and then rotate the orbital about the line perpendicular to this.If the sign of the lobes remains the same, the orbital is gerade, and if the sign changes, the orbital is ungerade. The term orbital was introduced by Robert S. Mulliken in 1932 as an abbreviation for one-electron orbital wave function. At the weekends, “Hallo, könnte ich mit dem Chef sprechen?”, “Wenn du  gleich zu Thomas gehst, dann nimm doch die Bücher mit. German doesn’t have such a form. Of course!” with a genuinely surprised tone.. that’s what people use na eben for. that the two are not bound to the now as in the moment of speech. The one for gerade ties in perfectly with the whole time-stuff we had just now and it is: Eeeeew. Can a s orbital overlap with any p orbital to form a sigma bond? And before you go like “Ugh. I'm going to read about point group in order to understand it better. Orbital conservation in Molecular orbital theory, Solr tokenization to split on semicolon character. Both can express exactly-ness but they only work in certain phrasings. I know, I know… exactly-ness is not a word. Use MathJax to format equations. Just make a little note that gerade can (not “always is”) a way to translate the ing-stuff from Inglish….