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Letter from Linus Pauling to John Arthur Wilson. Page 1. April 5, 1937

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Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of American Chemical Society RE: LP's encloses review of the book on Magnetochemistry. [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 3]
Letter from LP to Mr. John Arthur Wilson. [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.5]

April 5, 1937

Dr. John Arthur Wilson

757 North Broadway

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Dear Dr. Wilson:

There is in existence a good bit of evidence that ammonium compounds such as ammonium chloride involve no sharing of electrons between nitrogen and the chloride ion. For example, in crystalline ammonium chloride it is known that the four chlorine atoms are arranged tetrahedrally around nitrogen and that the chlorine atom is no closer to one nitrogen atom than to any one of seven others, the eight being all too far away to permit formation of a shared electron pair bond with nitrogen. I am sure that you would find these questions discussed in Lewis' book or in Sidgwick's book ("The Electronic Theory of Valency", Oxford) in a satisfactory manner.

With best regards, I am

Sincerely yours,

Linus Pauling

LP:mrl

Letter from LP to Professor J. H. Van Vleck, Harvard University, RE: LP does not believe that knows enough to discuss the points mentioned in his previous letter. It does seem to him that the magnetic and electric cases may be much different for the reason that a magnetic dipole atom in a paramagnetic substance may be spherically symmetrical so far as electron distribution is concerned, and electric dipole molecules can never show spherical symmetry. [Filed under: Van Vleck, J. H.: Correspondence, Box #424.2]

Letter from LP to Professor W. A. Noyes RE: LP suggests that the book by Dr. Dorsey would be valuable and worth publishing as a Monograph because of the importance of water. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #279.3]

Letter from W. A. Noyes to Clark, Lind and LP RE: Informs the members that he will be gone from Urbana from April 7th to May 5th and gives addresses where he may be reached. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #279.3]