CCL: eugen schwarz on orbitals



 Sent to CCL by: Brian Salter-Duke [b_duke###octa4.net.au]
 Eric,
 Could you give us an actual reference? It is not in the latest issue I
 can access on the web.
 Regards, Brian.
 On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:32:53PM -0500, Eric Scerri scerri * chem.ucla.edu
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 > I am wondering what list members think about the article on
 > observation of orbitals in the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie (Int
 > Ed')?
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 > If indeed orbitals can be observed in the various senses that Schwarz
 > indicates, how should textbook accounts on the unobservability of
 > orbitals be modified?  This is not something that the author addresses.
 >
 > regards,
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 > Scerri</DIV><DIV>Department of Chemistry &amp; =
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