Contribution to the Constitution of Inorganic Compounds

Then one morning at two o clock he woke up and started writing. By five o clock that afternoon he had finished his most famous paper. Contribution to the Constitution of Inorganic Compounds, in which he spelled out the basics of what would eventually become the accepted theory of coordination complexes. 

Sason This is a good question, my impatient interviewer. The issue of 3D structures brings me to the father of transition metal chemistry, Alfred Werner, whose photo is shown in Figure 9.2. In 1893, Werner published his seminal paper, A contribution to the constitution of inorganic compounds, which eventually won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913. In this paper, he laid down the basis for... 

In general it is more difficult with these inorganic compounds to make statements on the constitution with any degree of certainty. In the first place the possibility of comparison with a number of similarly constituted compounds, which is the case with carbon compounds, is lacking. The values for atomic radii, etc., have, therefore, also a much smaller reliability. The R.E. cannot be calculated at all on account of the lack of values for the contributions of the separate bonds. Furthermore polar effects and contributions from ionic configurations play a much more important part since much greater differences in electronegativity occur in this case. 

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