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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The paper is almost all mathematical but it will also be of interest to organic chemists.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1937].

Endorsed on verso as received 28 September 1936.

Reference number
RR/58/53
Earliest possible date
September 1936
Physical description
Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Robert Robertson

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Robert Robertson, Referee's report by Robert Robertson, on a paper 'The electronic structure of some polyenes and aromatic molecules I–The nature of the links by the method of molecular orbitals' by John Edward Lennard-Jones, September 1936, RR/58/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_58_53/referees-report-by-robert-robertson-on-a-paper-the-electronic-structure-of-some-polyenes-and-aromatic-molecules-ithe-nature-of-the-links-by-the-method-of-molecular-orbitals-by-john-edward-lennard-jones, accessed on 23 June 2025

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