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Electrostatic models in chemistry have a long history, dating back to Faraday’s time, and were never completely abandoned even after the advent of quantum theory. Recently though there has been a revival of interest. This revival, of which the present book is a manifestation, is not a direct filiation of such early models, but rather derives from the progress made in the last ten years in using computers to get descriptions of increasing complexity for the electronic wave functions of molecules of considerable size, isolated or interacting. The amount of numerical information available to and being generated by theoretical chemists today is enormous, and the present situation, which surpasses the hopes and the dreams of the preceding generation of theoreticians, creates new problems.
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Tomasi, J. (1981). Use of the Electrostatic Potential as a Guide to Understanding Molecular Properties. In: Politzer, P., Truhlar, D.G. (eds) Chemical Applications of Atomic and Molecular Electrostatic Potentials. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9634-6_12
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