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Forty years ago, I did my PhD with Malcolm Gerloch in Cambridge.

We were using a model which, at the time, we named the "ligand field version of the angular overlap model".

We took pains to explain how this model differed from the more recognised MO version of the AOM but few, if any, saw the point or acknowledged its significance - even after we renamed our approach to cellular ligand field theory (C-LFT).

The arrival of ab initio LFT has finally enabled me to demonstrate that we were right all along. The current conceptual MO model widely accepted as defining LFT is fundamentally flawed and not really fit for purpose.

You can read the evidence to justify this controversial assertion at C-LFT Dalton Perspective

Three years in the making, the Cellular Molecular Orbital model got its first public airing on Tuesday, April 18 at the Dalton2023 meeting at Warwick University.

Some very useful feedback (thanks Stuart, Mike and Aiden) but clearly, a long way to go to achieve anything like general acceptance...

RJD was part of the Sadler/Wills team which won a 2022 Horizon PrizeLink opens in a new window from the RSC