Aplicação de programas computacionais do Método de Hückel simples para o ensino das ligações químicas

Abstract

The nature of chemical bond is essential to understand chemistry concepts, mainly, at initial process in high school. From quantum mechanics concepts was possible describe the chemical bond basing in electronic density, which around the nucleus between two atoms. Hückel method was the first method presented to solve the Schrodinger Equation in approximate level and it reached good qualitative results for aromatic compounds indicating the feasibility of the computational chemistry. However, the Hückel method based on matrix is in accordance with molecular geometry proposed; then, the resolution of such method is possible for students in high level. From this idea, we presented the Hückel method as fundamental to understand the chemical bond for students in the first and second years of high school and we applied questions to evaluate the chemical bond knowledge before/after the Hückel method. We observed that there was increase and reinforce of the chemical bond concept for students.