Three Dimensional Representation of Atomic Orbitals

The atomic orbital diagrams below are generated using Mathematica. The method used is described in the article

"Three-Dimensional Graphical Visualization of One-Electron Atomic Orbitals"

by B. Ramachandran and P.C. Kong, Journal of Chemical Education 72, 406 (1995).

2s

3s

2pz

3px

3dz2

3dx2-y2


I do not have reprints of this article. However, you may freely download the program used to generate these figures by clicking on the program name, and get the instructions by clicking on the "readme" file:

orbital.m

readme

Please send e-mail to ramu@chem.LaTech.edu once you have successfully downloaded the program. Please also give me your full name and organizational affiliation. Thank you for your interest.