Theoretical chemist Matt Marmorino published a letter in the Journal of Chemical Education this month concerning the tendency of a pair of electrons to get close or stay distant from each other. This short note concerns merely the angular correlation of an electron pair for the singlet (spin paired) and triplet (same spin) states of an atom like carbon with two electrons in its p-subshell. Although behavior was covered in a previous article in the journal, Marmorino expanded the analysis in order to provide a slightly more general and simpler description of the electron behavior. You can view the article HERE from our university subscription. Marmorino was very excited to work on this short project because he was able to generate some interesting pictures - which is not something he typically does in his routine computational attack of eigenvalue problems.
