Abstract
An account of Ronald Gillespie’s 40-year-old approach to the understanding of molecular structure is presented from the point of view of its influence on the research of the author, a structural chemist. In addition, a review is given of some of the background of structural chemistry that led to Gillespie’s recent reformulation of ideas about molecular geometry. His well-known valence shell electron-pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory has changed the way structural chemistry is taught. His current research program on ligand close-packing and atomic charges promises to revise the way chemists think about the nature of the chemical bond.
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