Robert Thomas Sanderson

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Robert Thomas Sanderson (* 1912 ; † 1989 ) was an American chemist ( inorganic chemistry , electronegativity, and chemical bond theory).

Sanderson graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1934 and received his PhD in boron chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1939. He was then in the research laboratories of Texaco. He was a professor at Arizona State University at Tempe.

In 1951 he proposed the concept of approximating the electronegativity (defined by Mulliken) of two atoms in compounds. Sanderson applied this concept to the computation of properties of polar covalent bonds such as the assignment of partial charges to the partners of the bond and ionic radii in molecules and solids. Sanderson also introduced its own electronegativity scale.

Several textbooks and monographs come from him. He also had his own company, for example for posters with safety information for laboratories.

Mostly he is quoted as RT Sanderson.

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Books:

  • Vacuum Manipulation of Volatile Compounds , Wiley 1949
  • Chemical Periodicity , Reinhold 1960
  • Inorganic Chemistry , Reinhold 1967
  • Chemical Bonds and Bond Energy , Academic Press 1970
  • Polar Covalence , Academic Press 1983
  • Simple Inorganic Substances , Krieger 1989

Some essays:

  • Models for demonstrating electronegativity and "partial charg" e , Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 36, 1959, Issue 10
  • Chemical principles revisited: Principles of electronegativity , 2 parts, Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 65, 1988, pp. 112-118, 227-231.
  • Electronegativity and Bond Energy , Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 105, 1983, pp. 2259-2261
  • Electronegativity and bonding of transitional elements , Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 25, 1986, Issue 19
  • The inert-pair effect on electronegativity , Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 25, 1986, Issue 11

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Lalena, David Cleary, Principles of Inorganic Materials Design, Wiley 2010, p. 105