Valency Bonds and the Mechanism of Organic Reactions

Abstract

IN recent years the significance of the conventional bond in the structural formulae of organic cpm-pounds has been the subject of much speculation, more particularly in reference to the view that the bond corresponds with the field between two opposite electrical charges associated with the chemically combined atoms. The electrical conception of the valency bond has been further developed in a very interesting manner by Prof. A. Lapworth (Manchester Memoirs, vol. 64, No. 3, 1920) with the object of explaining the mechanism of the reactions of organic compounds.