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THE authors of this work, who in recent years have been making important contributions to the study of resonance, the diradical state, polarity in the hydrocarbon series, and the structure of the boron hydrides, are probably the best-known Russian workers in the field of quantum chemistry. The book is intended to fill the gap which, has apparently existed in Russian chemical literature by reason of the absence of books comparable with the standard British and American treatises on the theory of the chemical bond and wave-mechanical conceptions of valency. It covers broadly the ground of Pauling's “Nature of the Chemical Bond”, but in addition presents the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics (Schrödinger's method), the detailed Heitler-London treatment of molecules, and the mathematical point of view in general; for the authors consider that the student can achieve the critical attitude essential for progress in this field only by becoming thoroughly acquainted with all the postulates, limitations and approximations involved in the deduction of the equations which he will use.
The Chefnical Bond and the Structure of Molecules
(In Russian.) By Ya. K. Syrkin and M. E. Dyatkina. Pp. 588. (Moscow and Leningrad : State Scientific-Technical Publishing House of Chemical Literature, 1946.) 30 roubles.
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SMITH, G. The Chefnical Bond and the Structure of Molecules. Nature 159, 386 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159386b0
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