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The W term represents a constant energy contribution for acid–base reaction such as the cleavage of a dimeric acid or base. The equation predicts reversal of acids and base strengths. The graphical presentations of the equation show that there is no single order of Lewis base strengths or Lewis acid
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A related method adopting the E and C formalism of Drago and co-workers quantitatively predicts the formation constants for complexes of many metal ions plus the proton with a wide range of unidentate Lewis acids in aqueous solution, and also offered insights into factors governing HSAB behavior in
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Reanalysis of a large number of various most typical ambident organic system reveals that thermodynamic/kinetic control describes reactivity of organic compounds perfectly, whereas the HSAB principle fails and should be abandoned in the rationalization of ambident reactivity of organic compounds.
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2 mechanism is involved and whether hard or soft electrophiles are employed. Preferred N attack, as postulated for hard electrophiles by the HSAB principle, could not be observed with any alkylating agent. Isocyano compounds are only formed with highly reactive electrophiles that react without an
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activation barrier because the diffusion limit is approached. It is claimed that the knowledge of absolute rate constants and not of the hardness of the reaction partners is needed to predict the outcome of alkylations of the cyanide ion.
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Strutinsky's shell-correction method in the extended Kohn-Sham scheme: application to the ionization potential, electron affinity, electronegativity and chemical hardness of atoms in Recent
Advances in the Theory of Chemical and Physical
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The theory is used in contexts where a qualitative, rather than quantitative, description would help in understanding the predominant factors which drive chemical properties and reactions. This is especially so in
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bases, all other factors being equal. It can also be said that hard acids bind strongly to hard bases and soft acids bind strongly to soft bases. The HASB classification in the original work was largely based on
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is quantitative model that describes and predicts the strength of Lewis acid base interactions, -ΔH . The model assigned E and C parameters to many Lewis acids and bases. Each acid is characterized by an
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Cramer, R. E., and Bopp, T. T. (1977) Great E and C plot. Graphical display of the enthalpies of adduct formation for Lewis acids and bases. Journal of
Chemical Education 54 612-613
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Christe, K.O.; Dixon, D.A.; McLemore, D.; Wilson, W.W.; Sheehy, J.A.; Boatz, J.A. (2000). "On a quantitative scale for Lewis acidity and recent progress in polynitrogen chemistry".
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The
Mechanism of the Reaction of Silver Nitrite with Alkyl Halides. The Contrasting Reactions of Silver and Alkali Metal Salts with Alkyl Halides. The Alkylation of Ambident Anions
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E.-C. Koch, Acid-Base
Interactions in Energetic Materials: I. The Hard and Soft Acids and Bases (HSAB) Principle-Insights to Reactivity and Sensitivity of Energetic Materials,
1987:. The E and C parameters refer, respectively, to the electrostatic and covalent contributions to the strength of the bonds that the acid and base will form. The equation is
1137:) as being proportional to the second derivative of the total energy of a chemical system with respect to changes in the number of electrons at a fixed nuclear environment:
1465:{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\eta &\approx {\frac {E(N+1)-2E(N)+E(N-1)}{2}}\\&={\frac {(E(N-1)-E(N))-(E(N)-E(N+1))}{2}}\\&={\frac {1}{2}}(I-A)\end{aligned}}}
1791:{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\mu &\approx {\frac {E(N+1)-E(N-1)}{2}}\\&={\frac {-(E(N-1)-E(N))-(E(N)-E(N+1))}{2}}\\&=-{\frac {1}{2}}(I+A)\end{aligned}}}
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57:. 'Hard' applies to species which are small, have high charge states (the charge criterion applies mainly to acids, to a lesser extent to bases), and are weakly
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from which an operational definition for the chemical potential is obtained from a finite difference approximation to the first order derivative as
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reactions. In 2005 it was shown that even the sensitivity and performance of explosive materials can be explained on basis of HSAB theory.
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Another quantitative system has been proposed, in which Lewis acid strength toward Lewis base fluoride is based on gas-phase affinity for
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Delchev, Ya. I.; A. I. Kuleff; J. Maruani; Tz. Mineva; F. Zahariev (2006). Jean-Pierre Julien; Jean
Maruani; Didier Mayou (eds.).
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and in this sense hardness is a measure for resistance to deformation or change. Likewise a value of zero denotes maximum
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Hancock, R. D.; Martell, A. E. (1989). "Ligand design for the selective complexation of metal ions in aqueous solution".
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Tishkov, Alexander A.; Mayr, Herbert (2004). "Ambident
Reactivity of the Cyanide Ion: A Failure of the HSAB Principle".
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Robert G. Parr & Ralph G. Pearson (1983). "Absolute hardness: companion parameter to absolute electronegativity".
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reaction. This rule (established in 1954) predates HSAB theory but in HSAB terms its explanation is that in a S
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strengths. The ECW model accommodates the failure of single parameter descriptions of acid-base interactions.
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R. G. Pearson, Chemical
Hardness – Applications From Molecules to Solids, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 1997, 198 pp
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anion deviates. Another discrepancy noted in the original 1983 article are the apparent higher hardness of
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ion) is a very soft acid and H (proton) is a hard acid, which compete for B (the base to be classified).
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Mayr, Herbert (2011). "Farewell to the HSAB Treatment of
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Pearson, Ralph G. (1963). "Hard and Soft Acids and Bases".
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occur preferentially at carbon, regardless of whether the S
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the two properties are electrostatic and covalent .
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1962:. An alternative quantitative measure is the heat (
1979:. Each base is likewise characterized by its own E
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536:P-chloranil
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502:Carboxylate
59:polarizable
2736:Categories
2129:References
2016:solution.
81:metathesis
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2454:CiteSeerX
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2323:1365-3075
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728:ionogenic
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555:Carbonate
467:Phosphine
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354:Hydroxide
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440:Chromium
430:Halogens
422:Halogens
406:Titanium
396:Thiolate
388:Alkoxide
380:Platinum
172:Property
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1479:is the
1100:Methane
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745:BH + CH
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717:nitrate
713:bromide
689:aniline
679:Cs and
677:caesium
669:ferrous
629:uranium
625:Thorium
608:Benzene
456:Ammonia
376:Li,Na,K
362:Hydride
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187:atomic/
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315:soft
298:Acids
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1166:(
1159:2
1156:1
1151:=
1135:η
1133:(
1106:3
1092:2
1090:I
1065:2
1049:2
1035:2
1019:3
921:H
896:3
870:F
861:∞
857:H
759:3
751:3
747:3
701:2
699:N
618:6
616:H
614:6
612:C
603:4
601:H
599:2
597:N
589:M
561:3
550:2
548:O
546:4
542:6
540:C
532:C
530:3
528:R
508:3
497:3
486:3
473:3
462:3
348:2
340:3
329:O
327:3
325:H
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