06986 IUPAC Gold Book - angular overlap model 10.1351/goldbook.AT06986 AT06986 current initialism: AOM 1 A method of description of transition metal–ligand interactions and main group stereochemistry, whose basic assumption is that the strength of a bond formed using atomic orbitals on two atoms is related to the magnitude of overlap of the two orbitals. PAC, 1999, 71, 1919. 'Glossary of terms used in theoretical organic chemistry' on page 1923 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199971101919) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/AT06986/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/AT06986/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/AT06986/plain Citation: 'angular overlap model' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.AT06986 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-20T04:08:37+00:00