This discussion uncovers challenges in observing electronic orbitals relevant to chemical structure, suggesting implications for understanding reactivity.
The concept of electronic orbital has become such a useful and engraved tool in understanding chemical structure and reactivity that it has almost become one of those things whose original meaning has been lost and replaced for a utilitarian concept, one which is not bad in itself but that may lead to some wrong conclusions when certain fundamental facts are overlooked.
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