What does "isolobal" mean?

Describing fragments of molecules that are similar in having frontier orbitals that are equal in number and similar in size, and have the same symmetries and the same occupation by electrons.

Isolobal

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Describing fragments of molecules that are similar in having frontier orbitals that are equal in number and similar in size, and have the same symmetries and the same occupation by electrons.

Etymology

From iso- + lobal.

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frontier orbital

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