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isolobal definition

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The term is used to compare molecular fragments with each other and with familiar species from organic chemistry . Two fragments are isolobal if the number, symmetry properties, approximate energy, and shape of the frontier orbitals and the number of electrons in them are similar. See isoelectronic.


See also:

isotope exchange definition
isotopic scrambling definition
isodesmic reaction definition
isotope effect, solvent definition
isokinetic relationship definition