Quantum Chemistry qua Chemistry: Rules and More Rules
Quantum Chemistry qua Chemistry: Rules and More Rules
After Walter Heitler and Fritz London wrote their papers as well as tFriedrich Hund, a new approach emerged that was almost universally accepted in the field of chemistry. The leading figures in this approach were Robert Sanderson Mulliken at the University of Chicago’s Department of Physics and Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology’s Department of Chemistry. Pauling made the most out of Gilbert Newton Lewis’s notion of shared electron bonds, first in the framework of old quantum theory and then in the context of quantum mechanics. This chapter explores Mulliken’s work on molecules and molecular orbitals, Pauling’s views about the nature of chemical bonds and chemical valence based on the work of Lewis, Lewis’s research on electron pairing, Nevil Vincent Sidgwick’s contributions to quantum chemistry through his popularization of resonance theory and George W. Wheland’s extension of the theory, and John Clarke Slater’s attempt to bring physics and chemistry together.
Keywords: Robert Sanderson Mulliken, Linus Pauling, molecular orbitals, Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, chemical valence, chemical bonds, Gilbert Newton Lewis, resonance theory, quantum chemistry, chemistry
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