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work_pa6yswqkvnftxbkqzsmhxm5i2a	Robin Findlay Hendry	The Physicists, the Chemists, and the Pragmatics of Explanation	2004	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5348	304	52	In this paper I investigate two views of theoretical explanation in quantum chemistry, The Heitler-London-Pauling-Slater valence-bond method modeled Slater's views on the valence-bond and molecular-orbital approaches are Slater's evenhandedness with respect to the valence-bond and molecular-orbital approaches follows immediately: since the two methods converge as they valence-bond method, whereas Pauling had not done the same for molecular-orbital theory in his textbook The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Slater demands that a quantum mechanical theory of molecules "come However, Coulson identifies specifically chemical explanatory demands on quantum mechanics that are qualitative, and For Slater, a quantum-mechanical explanation of chemical bonding is explanatory application of quantum mechanics within chemistry. quantum mechanics to the explanation of molecular structure and bonding in the 1930s and after provides evidence for the completeness of physics, and against the once popular view that the laws of chemistry are in	./cache/work_pa6yswqkvnftxbkqzsmhxm5i2a.pdf	./txt/work_pa6yswqkvnftxbkqzsmhxm5i2a.txt