Abstract
The whole development of chemistry and, in particular, of quantum chemistry may be viewed as the evolution of the following basic concepts (Bader et al., 1979a, b; 1980; 1981; Daudel, 1980):
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the existence of atoms and of functional groups in molecules as evidenced by the characteristic set of properties through which they can be identified;
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the concept of bonding, through which the stability of a molecule may be understood by assuming the existence of particular interactions between atoms in molecules;
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the associated concepts of molecular structure and molecular shape.
āMatter occupies space and is made up of atoms. Hence atoms occupy real space and should be defined in real space.ā
R.F.W. Bader and T.T Nguyen-Dang (1981)
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Kryachko, E.S., LudeƱa, E.V. (1990). The One-Electron Density. In: Energy Density Functional Theory of Many-Electron Systems. Understanding Chemical Reactivity, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1970-9_3
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