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THE letter from Dr. E. and Prof. W. Hückel in these columns1 explains that “H+” on page 326 of Dr. E. Hückel's original paper was a misprint for “H-atom”. The misprint, occurring at a crucial point, was unfortunate, and in the light of this explanation we naturally withdraw all such criticism as was based on the misapprehension that Hückel postulated extrusion of proton during the ordinary “substitution of hydrogen” in the aromatic series.
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LAPWORTH, A., ROBINSON, R. Theory of Induced Polarities in Benzene. Nature 130, 273 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130273a0
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