There is an extensive literature seeking to come to grips with the following Question: Is chemistry explained by the physics of the Schrödinger Equation SE as basis of Quantum Mechanics QM? Physicists in general claim that this is so, without supplying much detail of any QM explanation, while chemists wanting to see the details in general resort to their own explanations with only vague connection to QM.
The basic trouble is that solutions to SE are uncomputable for multi-electron molecules and so cannot be inspected to reveal the physics of chemical bonding as the central aspect of the Question. What is available are other equations supposedly motivated by SE for which solutions can be omputed, but then with unclear status as approximate solutions to SE. In practice this works to accept approximate solutions which fit with observation and reject those who do not. This can result in ad hoc fitting of model to data missing the predictive first principle power of SE, then taken for granted.
Here is an illuminating discussion with chatGPT showing how the scientific community grapples with the Question.
My own grapple has resulted in RealQM as Real Quantum Chemistry.
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