George W. Wheland
Affiliations: | University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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"George Wheland"Bio:
George W. Wheland (1907-1962) obtained his doctoral degree with J.B. Conant at Harvard University and then moved to Caltech as a postdoctoral fellow (1932-1936) to work with Pauling in the extension of resonance to organic molecules. He co-authored the fifth paper of Pauling's series on "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" and became a staunch advocate of resonance theory. In 1936, Wheland went to the United Kingdom as a Guggenheim Fellow to spend a year at the Department of Chemistry at the University of London headed by Ingold. He also used part of his time to work for some months in Oxford with Cyril Hinshelwood and to visit Lennard-Jones in Cambridge, Sommerfeld in Munich, and Hückel in Stuttgart.
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Parents
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| (A study of certain organic acids) | ||||
| Linus Carl Pauling | post-doc | 1932-1936 | Caltech | |
| Christopher K. Ingold | post-doc | 1936-1937 | UCL | |
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| Wheland GW, Brownell RM, Mayo EC. (1948) The steric inhibition of resonance. III. Acid strengths of some nitro- and cyanophenols Journal of the American Chemical Society. 70: 2492-2495 |
| STEARNS RS, WHELAND GW. (1947) A precise method for the determination of the ionization constants of some weak organic acids. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 69: 2025-9 |
| Stearns RS, Wheland GW. (1947) A precise method for the determination of the ionization constants of some weak organic acids Journal of the American Chemical Society. 69: 2025-2029 |
| Wheland GW, Farr J. (1943) Acid strengths of aliphatic nitro compounds Journal of the American Chemical Society. 65: 1433 |
| Kleene RD, Westheimer FH, Wheland GW. (1941) Dissociation constants in the cinnamic acid series Journal of the American Chemical Society. 63: 791-793 |
| Kleene RD, Wheland GW. (1941) Position of two alicyclic hydrocarbons in the acidity series Journal of the American Chemical Society. 63: 3321-3322 |
| Pauling L, Wheland GW. (1933) The nature of the chemical bond. V. The quantum-mechanical calculation of the resonance energy of benzene and naphthalene and the hydrocarbon free radicals The Journal of Chemical Physics. 1: 362-374 |
| Conant JB, Wheland GW. (1933) The structure of the acids obtained by the oxidation of tri-isobutylene Journal of the American Chemical Society. 55: 2499-2504 |
| Conant JB, Wheland GW. (1932) The study of extremely weak acids Journal of the American Chemical Society. 54: 1212-1221 |