"…The authors offer a new explanation about the nature of covalent chemical bonding… Based upon this approach, their Theory of Elementary Interactions (TEI) is a unified theory of kinetics and catalysis and an alternative to the Transition State Theory (TST). Various Types of chemical reactions are analyzed. The authors deal with the deficiencies in the existing conceptions of chemical bonding and kinetics, and offer new interpretations for the basic catalytic regularities."
Journal of Chemical Education,
August 1992, page A227
(On the first edition of this book)

"This is a puzzling book. ... The first edition was A New Theory of Chemical Bonding and Chemical Kinetics, Leningrad (1991). ... In this rather polemical book, they state their disappointment with quantum chemistry, particularly with molecular orbital theory. ... The authors offer a distinctive perspective on the topics of the title; perhaps the book will stimulate productive discussion. Researchers; faculty; professionals." – A. Viste, Augustana College (SD)
The magazine CHOICE
(Current Reviews for Academic Libraries)
February 1999,
vol. 36 #6, Dept. of SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY,
Chemistry
 

The TENTATIVE COMPENDIUM OF PROPOSALS FOR CHANGE IN THE INTRODUCTORY CHEMISTRY CURRICULUM compiled by Stephen J. Hawkes of the Chemistry Department of the Oregon State University included:
"98. The Gankin calculations on chemical bonding, which do not involve quantum mechanics, should be taught in introductory chemistry. See: "How Chemical Bonds Form and Chemical Reactions Proceed", Gankin, V.Y., Gankin, Y.V. pub. Institute of Theoretical Chemisty, Shrewsbury, MA, 1998."