ISSN:
1572-8897
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Mathematics
Notes:
Abstract Mizoguchi has very recently cast London's theory of magnetic susceptibilities of conjugated molecules in terms of the Coulson contour-integral formulation of Hückel molecular-orbital theory. Since interest in this approach has been thus revived, we present here a previously unpublished document, dated May 16th, 1953, by the late Professor C.A. Coulson, FRS, in which he formulates the London theory in terms of his own contour-integral method. Coulson's treatment is based on bond-bond polarisabilities and it therefore provides an interesting parallel to certain aspects of the now-classic McWeeny polarisability method, advanced five years later. The Coulson polarisability formalism does not, however, provide for explicit computation of individual “ring-current” intensities, nor — since it preceded the experimental observations — for the direct calculation of “ring-current” secondary fields (and, hence,1H-NMR chemical shifts).
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01169015
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