Longuet-Higgins, Hugh

Longuet-Higgins Hugh Christopher, 260, 261, 672, 885, 902 Lopez Xabier, 217 Lorentz Hendrik, 108,... 

Hugh C. Longuet-Higgins, one of Coulson s students, went even further in assessing the complex relation of quantum chemistry to mathematics. He turned the whole argument upside down. He did not consider that there was a danger that quantum chemistry might be subsumed under mathematics, and boasted that the time had come for chemists to teach mathematics to the mathematicians. He... 

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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