Chemistry and Industry, June 16th, 2003
I David Brown
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
'There are rather too many models of chemical bonding in existence,' says the author, as he introduces yet another model. How does this apparent paradox arise, and how is it to be resolved?
The broad area, which is still labelled inorganic chemistry, despite many attempts to rebrand in more modern style. is largely dominated in academic studies by molecular compounds. The huge forest of empirical knowledge supports a vigorous undergrowth of interpretative schemes of varying degrees of sophistication, but all them are, in essence, variant...
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