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The development of semi-empirical electronic structure methods from the early 1930s to the present day is reviewed. The emphasis is on the valence bond and molecular orbital treatments of molecules but some coverage of solids is given, in so far as it follows chemical models. The current position of such theories in respect of the conceptual insight they provide and their success for predictions...
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