Electronic stability

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CHM-003755",
  "term": "Electronic stability",
  "field": "Chemistry",
  "definition": "The condition in which a species has no other electronic state of lower energy available among those built from the same number of electrons at a given nuclear geometry. A species is electronically unstable when such a state exists. In computational work, a closed-shell wave function that can relax into a lower-energy unrestricted solution is called unstable in this sense.",
  "subject": "Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry",
  "see_also": [
    "electronic state"
  ],
  "references": [
    "PAC, 1999, 71, 1919. 'Glossary of terms used in theoretical organic chemistry' on page 1938 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199971101919)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/chemistry/electronic-stability/"
}