CCL:HYBRIDIZATION NOT "REAL";V. FOCK

[Eric Scerri <scerri -8 at 8- chem.ucla.edu>]

>   QUESTIONS:
>   (1) Did Linus Pauling _invent_ hybridization? He certainly popularized
>   it.
I believe that hybridization was introduced independently and at
 around the same time by Slater.
>   (2) Did Pauling accept that hybridization is "only" a mathematical
>   procedure?
Pauling's views on hybridization and resonance have been much
 debated.  Among other things his writings were the cause of the
 "ban"
 on quantum mechanics which occurred in the 1950's in the former
 Soviet Union.
 Articles dealing with the reality or otherwise of Pauling's concepts include,
Vermeeren, 1986, Controversies and Existence Claims in Chemistry, The
 Theory of Resonance,
 Synthese, 69, 273-90.
Pauling himself debated the reality of orbitals, and hybridization
 with Ogilvie among others in the pages of Journal of Chemical
 Education.
see Ogilvie, J, 1990, The Nature of the Chemical Bond-1990, Journal
 of Chemical Education, 67, 280-90.  and follow up letters to the
 editor  and a full article reponse by pauling.
Pauling, L. 1992, The nature of the Chemical Bond- 1992, Journal of
 Chemical Education,
 65, 519-21.
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>   By the way, does anyone know where Vladimer Fock got his Ph.D., and
>   where and when he died? I think he worked at the University of St.
>   Petersburg/Leningrad.
A recent article on the life and work of Fock appeared in Chemical
 Intelligencer.
>  regards,
 eric scerri
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