Despite the fact that the chemical bond is a fiction, although convenient and nearly harmless, it plays an enormous role in the thinking, and especially the education, of chemists at all levels. Much further fiction has ...

We compare the results of application of graph theory and of simple Hueckel theory in its traditional form to benzene, as an instance of a conjugated molecular system. The ...

The physical implications of the form and nature of the van der Waals equation of state are explained. The relation of this equation to so-­‐‐called van der Waals ...