A Deriving total energy in a Hydrogen molecule

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I am looking for litterature that derives mathematically the total energy in a ##H_2## molecule by using quantum physics. Anyone knows a book they can recommend. I have seen derivations for helium atom for example:

http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/qmech/Quantum/node128.html

I need something similar for the hydrogen atom. Anyone? Cheers!
 
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The hydrogen molecule is a 4 particle system. When I was a senior in QM, I wrote a program that solved for the energy H2 as a function of inter-nuclear separation. I used the Hartree Fock method to solve for the energy. There are a lot of integrals that must be evaluated, so I wrote a numerical routine to solve for the integrals.
 
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