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DOI: 10.1021/ja00472a009
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“…The debate focuses not on an auxiliary or secondary notion, but on a central concept of molecular chemistry: molecular structure is the main factor in the explanation of reactivity, it is "the central dogma of molecular science" (Woolley 1978(Woolley , p. 1074. As Robin Hendry claims, "molecular structure is so central to chemical explanation that to explain molecular structure is pretty much to explain the whole of chemistry" (Hendry 2010, p. 183).…”
Section: -Linking Physics and Chemistry: The Problem Of Molecular Smentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The debate focuses not on an auxiliary or secondary notion, but on a central concept of molecular chemistry: molecular structure is the main factor in the explanation of reactivity, it is "the central dogma of molecular science" (Woolley 1978(Woolley , p. 1074. As Robin Hendry claims, "molecular structure is so central to chemical explanation that to explain molecular structure is pretty much to explain the whole of chemistry" (Hendry 2010, p. 183).…”
Section: -Linking Physics and Chemistry: The Problem Of Molecular Smentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is the case of Woolley in his works of the 70's and the 80's, where he stresses that, by means of the description of a molecule from "first principles", "one cannot even calculate the most important parameters in chemistry, namely, those that describe the molecular structure" (Woolley 1978(Woolley , p. 1074; he considers that the impossibility of determining the geometry of a molecule by means of quantum mechanics is a proof of the fact that molecular structure is only a "powerful and illuminating metaphor" (Woolley 1982, p. 4). In turn, Hans Primas highlights non-locality as a specific feature of quantum mechanics that excludes the spatial concept of molecular structure: "the holistic correlations between the nuclei and electrons are suppressed, so the description of a molecule reduces to the description of the motion in the electrical field of a classical nuclear framework" (Primas 1998, p. 91;see also Primas 1983).…”
Section: -Linking Physics and Chemistry: The Problem Of Molecular Smentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The debate focuses not on an auxiliary or secondary notion, but on a central concept of molecular chemistry: molecular structure is "the central dogma of molecular science" (Woolley 1978(Woolley , p. 1074. As Robin Hendry claims, "molecular structure is so central to chemical explanation that to explain molecular structure is pretty much to explain the whole of chemistry" (Hendry 2010, p. 183).…”
Section: C-the Concept Of Molecular Structurementioning
confidence: 99%
“…A discussão iniciou com o polêmico e desafiante artigo de Woolley, 22 em que se indicou que, a partir da teoria quântica, a noção de estrutura molecular se contrapõe à noção clássica e, portanto, não é uma propriedade intrínseca dos sistemas químicos. Na mesma linha, Primas considera que a estrutura molecular é apenas uma poderosa metáfora que não corresponde com a realidade descrita através da mecânica quântica.…”
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