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Science 17 March 1978:
Vol. 199. no. 4334, pp. 1163 - 1167
DOI: 10.1126/science.199.4334.1163
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Color and Constitution: One Hundred Years of Research

Siegfried Dähne 1

1 Head of the Laboratory of Electronic Spectroscopy at the Central Institute of Optics and Spectroscopy, Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic, 1199 Berlin, German Democratic Republic

Useful theories and models of the color and constitution of unsaturated organic compounds have been sought for more than a century. The promises of quantum chemistry have not yet been realized satisfactorily. The polymethine concept, a modern chemical theory of constitution, is an auspicious development.


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