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).
Ademais, dicútese se tamén anticipou a natureza da mecánica ondulatoria, dado que recoñeceu que as afinidades eran dirixidas e non eran simplemente partículas puntuais e colectivamente posuían unha distribución que podía ser alterada mediante a introdución de substituíntes ao anel bencénico (dado que a distribución da carga eléctrica nun corpo é alterada polo acercamento doutro corpo).