Breve estudio histórico sobre el sentido del momento dipolar eléctrico en química

A brief historical analysis is carried out concerning the vectorial representation of the electric dipolar moment in chemistry. This convention, which is the opposite of the one adopted in physics, has its origin in the works that Sidgwick published in the early 1930s and was consolidated in the following decades. Specifically, authors of chemistry textbooks mostly adopted the chemical direction of this vector. At the end of the last century some authors of physical chemistry textbooks started to use the physical convention, but organic chemistry and general chemistry textbooks still mainly follow the historical tradition.