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Referee's report by Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, on a paper 'The electronic structure of some polyenes and aromatic molecules. VII. Bonds of fractional order by the molecular orbital method' by Charles Alfred Coulson

Reference number: RR/65/60

Date: 12 September 1938

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

He isn't competent enough to judge the paper. If the assumptions are correct, it'll be of great interest to chemists.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1939].

Endorsed on verso as received 13 September 1938.

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RR/65/60
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12 September 1938
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2 pages
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Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, Referee's report by Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, on a paper 'The electronic structure of some polyenes and aromatic molecules. VII. Bonds of fractional order by the molecular orbital method' by Charles Alfred Coulson, 12 September 1938, RR/65/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_60/referees-report-by-nevil-vincent-sidgwick-on-a-paper-the-electronic-structure-of-some-polyenes-and-aromatic-molecules-vii-bonds-of-fractional-order-by-the-molecular-orbital-method-by-charles-alfred-coulson, accessed on 21 January 2025

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