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ALTHOUGH I am pleased to note that Dr. A. D. Walsh has made a final contribution to this discussion, it may nevertheless be possible to correct a mis-statement. He says1 that I take the usual formula to represent only the position in space of the atoms involved. What I actually wrote was2: ". . . to the usual formulæ. These represent nothing more than the mode of linking of the atoms in the molecule, combined with an indication of the degree of symmetry of the statistical distribution of electrons". Or again3: "The formula represents only the mean position in space of the atoms (kernels) and the mode of binding (that is, the structure disclosed by analysis, synthesis, X-ray crystal evidence, etc.)".
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ROBINSON, R. Structure of Cyclopropane. Nature 161, 176 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161176c0
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