It is argued that he also anticipated the nature of wave mechanics, since he recognized that his affinities had direction, not merely being point particles, and collectively having a distribution that could be altered by introducing substituents onto the benzene ring (much as the distribution of the electric charge in a body is altered by bringing it near to another body).
Tvrdi se da je on takođe predvideo prirodu talasne mehanike, budući da je prepoznao da njegovi afiniteti imaju smer, da nisu samo tačkaste čestice, i da kolektivno imaju distribuciju koja se može promeniti uvođenjem supstituenata na benzenski prsten (kao što se distribucija električnog naboja u telu menja kad mu se približava drugo telo).