Molecular Formation as Emergent Interference Clustering in the ASFM Model

This preprint presents a molecular-formation extension based on the Asymmetric Source Field Model (ASFM). ASFM itself is introduced and formulated in the related atomic-valence manuscript cited below. The present work applies this residual-field formalism to molecular formation and investigates whether selected bonding, non-bonding, and compression-limited systems can be interpreted as persistent multi-center residual-field coherence clusters. The manuscript discusses O₂, H₂O, Ne-F, CO₂, and exploratory C/N/O/S comparison cases. Molecular formation is treated as the emergence of bridge-coherence clusters between atomic source-field signatures. The pair scans do not include a target-distance term for known molecular bond lengths. Closed-shell systems such as He and Ne are treated as non-bond-active controls. The work further includes an outlook on sequential H₂O angular formation, where a water-like high-response interval emerges without using the empirical H-O-H angle as a target term. The present record is intended as a methodological preprint and reproducibility package. It does not claim a completed frozen-protocol benchmark or a replacement of established quantum chemistry. Rather, it documents the current ASFM-based field-topological approach to molecular structure formation and provides manuscripts, source files, figures, code, and metadata for transparent review.