Bell, Ronald

I gratefully acknowledge the work of Eli Pearce, dean of Arts and Sciences and director of the Polymer Research Institute, Polytechnic University of New York Geoffrey N. Richards, director of the Wood Chemistry Laboratory, University of Montana Barbara Levin of the National Center for Fire Research, NIST Stanley Kaufman of Bell Laboratories and Ronald L. Markezich of the Technology Center, Occidental Chemical Corporation. Their solicitation of papers was... 

In order to explain the hydrogen bridges in diborane and their apparent electron deficiencies, the concept of three-center bonding, in which one pair of electrons links three atoms, was introduced by Hugh C. Longuet-Higgins and Ronald P. Bell. Lipscomb and co-workers extended the concept to multicenter bonds in general. 

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