Quantum mechanics rears its head in many places and one of them is inorganic chemistry, where the electronic spin associated with unpaired electrons has a profound influence. This was the topic of the 2012 CECAM workshop.
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Costas, M., Harvey, J. Discussion of an open problem. Nature Chem 5, 7–9 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1533
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