Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.105, No.1, 5-11, 2001
Interdisciplinary applications of Pauling's metallic orbital and unsynchronized resonance to problems of modern physical chemistry: Conductivity, magnetism, molecular stability, superconductivity, catalysis, photoconductivity, and chemical reactions
The resonating valence bond theory, emphasizing unsynchronized resonance and metallic orbitals, introduced by Pauling 50 years ago, has become an easily visualized tool for describing some electron-transfer processes. It has yielded simple, qualitative and useful descriptions of a wide variety of phenomena including the stability and geometry of molecules, conductivity, photoconductivity, superconductivity, magnetism, surface catalyzed reactions, chemical carcinogenesis as well as the stability of the metallic state.