Roald Hoffmann

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel lecture, 8 December 1981

Building Bridges between Inorganic and Organic Chemistry

 

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From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Bo G. Malmström, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992

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