February 8, 1963 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Check from LP to "State Dept. Motor Veh." $65.00, for "truck." [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box 4.077, Folder 77.1]

Check from LP to the Department of Motor Vehicles RE: $65.00. [Bank Statement from First Western Bank to LP and AHP March 19, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Business and Financial: Box #4.027, Folder #27.2]

Letter from Asbjorn Hordvik, University of Bergen, to Dr. A. J. C. Wilson, University College, RE: Calls attention to the paper, “The Crystal Structure of Xanthan Hydride,” recently submitted for publication in Acta Crystallographica by Richard Stanford, Jr. Discusses details of the paper and suggests that its publication may not be ethically justified. [Letter from Stanford to Hordvik December 28, 1962, Letter from Hughes to Hordvik February 19, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence:(H: Correspondence, 1963) #169.1]

Letter from Dr. Isidore Ziferstein to LP RE: Ziferstein encloses two drafts of a letter for an article on “Our New Strategy,” to be put in the Saturday Evening Post and requests that LP revise and sign them. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Z: Individual Correspondence (Zachariasen- Ziferstein)) #464.8]

Letter from Dr. Nathan Dechter, Executive Director, Hall of Education, New York World’s Fair, to LP RE: Extend an invitation for him to participate in their featured educational presentation, “Dialogues in Depth.” Discusses the purpose of the presentation. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (N: Correspondence, 1963), #288.7]

Letter from Hal Colter to LP RE: Presents LP with two essays Colter has written, says that they represent an effort to understand, in a systematic way, the human climate in which we find ourselves in and to offer some kind of a solution. Colter says if LP makes sense of the essays, he would like to hear from him. [Letter from Colter to LP August 6, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence), #77.1]

Letter from J. van Overbeek, Shell Development Company, to LP. RE: Thanks him for coming to Modesto. [Filed under LP Speeches: Speeches by LP, 1963: Box #1963s Folder #1963s.2]

Letter from LP to Homer A. Jack, National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, RE: Inquires about details of a conference held in Oxford in January. Poses six questions for Jack to answer regarding his contribution to the conference. [Letter from LP to Jack February 18, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence:(Jack, Homer A.) #188.1]

Letter from LP to Homer Jack, RE: LP believes that he was brought to Oxford under false pretenses because of a statement that Jack made about who was responsible for the Oxford Conference. LP believes that he deserves to know what Jack meant by his statements and who was actually responsible for the Conference. LP notes that he and AHP came to the Conference at great financial expense and also at the expense of AHP’s health. [Jack’s reply February 13, 1963] [Filed under LP Peace: (Oxford Conference, January 4-7, 1963), Box #2.006, Folder #6.2] [Also Filed under LP Peace: (SANE, 1958-1966, 1982), Box #4.003, Folder #3.10

Letter from Professor J. I. Fernandez-Alonso to LP RE: Fernandez-Alonso informs LP about a retiring professor in Spain and the “Anales de la Real Sociedad Española de Física y Química” that will be dedicated to him. He requests that LP contribute to this issue by submitting a paper. [Letter from LP to Fernandez-Alonso February 14, 1963] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: (Manuscripts and Typescripts of Articles by LP, 1964), Box #1964a, Folder #1964a.4]

Letter from Rore Russell to LP RE: Informs LP that Dr. Taylor will be receiving the Teacher’s Union’s annual award. Asks that if LP has anything he would like to say he may send it and they will present it to Dr. Taylor. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963) #411.8]

Memo from LP to Dr. Gustav Albrecht. [Memo from LP to Albrecht March 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Gustav Albrecht), #4.1]

8 February 1963

TO: Dr. Gustav Albrecht

FROM: Linus Pauling

SUBJECT: Subjects for Research

There are two subjects that I should like you to think about during the coming two or three weeks, to see whether or not we might write papers about them, perhaps for publication in the Journal of Chemical Education. I think that these papers would in part be review papers and in part be contributions to knowledge.

First, there is the matter of carbenes. I have given you the carbon copy of Chapter 10 of College Chemistry, with a section on the carbenes. Would you look through the literature and gather some more general information about them? Professor George Hammond, in organic chemistry, gave me some information and references, and it might be worthwhile for you to talk with him. I think that you would have a good idea about what aspects of carbene chemistry would be worth mentioning in an article in the Journal of Chemical Education.

In the carbene section of Chapter 10 I have given an argument about the energy (enthalpy) of carbene. I think that this argument has not been published. Herzberg in the Canadian Journal of Physics has given some information, some of which is on the attached sheet. The bond length in the singlet state and the triplet state may not be certain. For the triplet state Herzberg says that if the molecule is linear the bond length would be 1.03, if 140º for the bond angle, the bond length would be 1.07 Å. I think that this means the molecule is bent.

The second paper that we might write is on double bonds with chlorine, sulfur, phosphorus, and silicon, an analysis of enthalpy values. Some of this is in the manuscript. I think that it would make a good paper for Journal of Chemical Education.

Linus Pauling:lh

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