Jorgensen, Alfred

Jorgensen, C. K. Helv. Chim. Acta, Fasciculus Extraordinarius Alfred Werner 1967, 131. 

Muller K. Molecular modeling and structural data bases in pharmaceutical research. In Jensen B, Jorgensen FS, Kofod H, eds. Frontiers in Drug Research—Crystallographic and Computational Methods. Alfred Benzon Symposium No. 28, Jun 11-15, 1989, Copenhagen Munksgaard, 1990 210-221. 

Jorgensen, C. KHelv. Chim. Acta Fasc. extraord. Alfred Werner 131 (1967). 

As new complex ions were synthesized, several bonding theories were postulated and rejected. The two most convincing theories, the Blomstrand-Jorgensen chain theory and coordination theory proposed by Alfred Werner, were debated extensively (a subject taken up in detail in Chapter 2) and it was coordination theory that eventually proved to be correct, winning Wemer the Nobel Prize in 1913. 

Werner, A. Z. Anore. Chem. 1893, 3, 267-330. For a discussion and annotated English translation, see Kauffman, G. B. Classics in Coordination Cherrustry, Part 1 The Selected Papers of Alfred Werner, Dover New York, 1968 pp 5-88. For a detailed discussion of the Jorgensen-Werner controversy, see Chapter 1 in this book. 

A systematic investigation of structure and bonding in coordination chemistry began with the inquisitiveness of Tassaert (1798), which was extended by distinguished chemists like Wilhelm Blomstrand, Jorgensen and Alfred Werner [1] until the end of the nineteenth century. In the events, Werner s coordination theory (1893) became the base of the modem coordination chemistry. It is worth noting that the electron was discovered subsequent to Werner s theory. 

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