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FOR non-mesomeric molecules the molecular electric moment may be formally divided into the vector sums of the group moments and of the induced moments. Calculation of these latter has been attempted by Smallwood and Herzfeld1, Smyth2 and Groves and Sugden3; but the number of examples of any one molecular type considered has been too small to substantiate the methods. The calculations of the last-named authors, based on a method suggested by Frank4, appear to be the most valid.
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GENT, W. Electric Induction in Molecules and the Polarity of the C—H Bond. Nature 158, 27 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158027a0
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