Physical Interpretation of the Electronegativity

An additivity scheme of electronegativities of univalent substituents has been proposed on the basis on the Van Vleck orbital model of valence states of atoms. The electronegativity of any organic or heteroelement-containing substituent can be calculated from the orbital electronegativities and hardnesses of atoms constituting that substituent. The proposed additivity scheme is the most consistent among those currently available for calculation of orbital electronegativities of univalent substituents. The scheme was substantiated with the aid of quantum-chemical scale of group electronegativities.     

Electronic Chemical Potential and Orbital Electronegativity of Univalent Substituents

The relations were analyzed between the electronic chemical potential of a chemical group in the ground state and the orbital chemical potential of its valence state, the latter being equal in absolute value to its orbital electronegativity. These quantities should be equivalent for univalent substituents whose ground electronic state can be described by one-determinant wave function allowing localization of molecular orbitals in a closed shell. In this case, the orbital electronegativity of a chemical group can be calculated in terms of nonempirical quantum-chemical methods. The results of the variation calculation of orbital electronegativities of a series of univalent substituents gave rise to a quantum-chemical scale of group electronegativities which may be used for testing of approximate calculation procedures.     

Molecular orbital electronegativities of transition metal fragments: A MO approach based on the transition operator method

The molecular orbital electronegativities χ of various transition metal fragments have been investigated by means of the “transition operator (TO) method” within a semi-empirical INDO Hamiltonian. The calculated electronegativities χ(TO) are discussed with respect to the donor and acceptor properties of the studied complexes. It is found that the values χ(TO) can be correlated with experimental and theoretical data concerning the nature of the chemical bond in transition metal derivatives.     

Electronegatlvity and the bonding character of Molecular Orbitals

The density-functional approach to Molecular Orbital theory shows that the chemical bonding potential is better described by orbital electronegativities than by ionization energies. This results from the fact that the electronic relaxation connected with ionization is not significant for the homolytic breaking of chemical bonds. Electronegativity, on the other hand, is an eigenvalue corresponding to the average potential seen by an electron as a molecular orbital changes into monocentric (atomic) orbitals.     

Electronegativities and the bonding character of molecular orbitals: A remark

From the density functional theory of Hohenberg-Kohn it is possible to prove that a molecular orbital is bonding (antibonding) if its electronegativity is larger (smaller) than the electronegativities of the corresponding atomic orbitals.     

Molecular orbital electronegativity

The molecular orbital electronegativities of a representative set of free radicals of Be, BC, N and O have been calculated for the first time using the transition operator method within the semi-empirical CNDO LCAO MO theory. The significance of the effect of delocalization on electronegativity is discussed.     

Iterative partial equalization of orbital electronegativity—a rapid access to atomic charges

A method is presented for the rapid calculation of atomic charges in σ-bonded and nonconjugated π-systems. Atoms are characterized by their orbital electronegativities. In the calculation only the connectivities of the atoms are considered. Thus only the topology of a molecule is of importance. Through an iterative procedure partial equalization of orbital electronegativity is obtained. Excellent correlations of the atomic charges with core electron binding energies and with acidity constants are observed. This establishes their value in predicting experimental data.     

一种价态元素电负性的新标度

本文利用原子的价层轨道能、共价半径和有效主量子数为主要参数，以静电力为基础计算了价态元素电负性，本文计算了78种元素常见价态的电负性，由此，产生了一套价态元素电负性的新标度，其计算公式为：X_y=0.070n^*(-∑E_i)^1/2/r_c²+0.820式中E_i为原子的价层轨道能，r_c为原子的共价半径，n^*为有效主量子数。该标度不但容易理解和计算,而且标度值比已有的文献值更接近传统的鲍林电负性值。此外，该标度值的相对大小还能反映配合物的稳定性，过渡金属收缩和镧系元素收缩等性质。     

Estimation of the effective charges in phosphoryl compounds on the basis of the orbital electronegativity

Conclusions A linear relationship between the charges on the phosphorus and oxygen atoms of the phosphoryl group, calculated on the basis of the orbital electronegativities, and the sum of the induction constants of the substituents at the phosphorus atom was found for compounds of the R₃PO type.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2491–2494, November, 1973.     

Physical properties of many-electron atomic systems evaluated from analytical Hartree-Fock functions

The promotion energies, ionization potentials, electron affinities, and orbital electronegativities for the valence states of importance in atoms of the first two rows of the periodic system have been evaluated from analytical Hartree-Fock functions for the corresponding groundstates. The agreement with existing values, determined from experimental data, is very satisfactory.This work has been supported in part by the National Research Council of Canada.     

基态原子价壳层电子能级连接性指数与元素的电负性

构建了基态原子价壳层电子能级连接性指数(^mVEI),m=0,1,2,…，它对基态原子实现唯一性表征，其中^0VEI,^1VEI对原子具有良好的结构选择性，以^0VEL,^1VEL，价壳层电子总离子化能(ΣniEi)和总从电子数(Σni)为基本参数，定义了元素的电负性：X~N=0.444067+1.190653(1-1.32775/Σni)(^0VEI)-3.154675(^1VEI)+0.134591.(ΣniEi/Σni)。用上式给出了周期表中主族元素、副族元素及惰性元素的电负性。结果表明，新电负性标度X~N与目前流行的Pauling标度颇为一致。进一步从价轨道能级连接性指数确定了碳原子的sp,sp^2,sp^3杂化轨道的电负性。     

原子价壳层电子量子拓扑指数与元素电负性的关系

在基态原子价壳层电子隐核图的基础上, 基于拓扑化学原理以及原子价壳层电子结构特征, 构建了原子价壳层电子量子拓扑指数(AEI), 它对基态原子实现唯一性表征, 结合原子价壳层电子平均化能(∑n_iE_i/∑n_i)等参数, 建立了一套新的元素电负性标度: X_N＝－0.588710AEI₁＋0.761214AEI₂＋0.154982(∑n_iE_i/∑n_i)－0.080929. 该式给出了周期表中氢至镅共95种元素的电负性, 结果表明新电负性标度X_N与Pauling电负性标度颇为一致. 进一步从原子价轨道量子拓扑指数确定了sp, sp², sp³杂化轨道的电负性. 新标度在元素和物质的结构-性质研究中具有一定的适用性.     

Kirchhoff atomic charges fitted to multipole moments: implementation for a virtual screening system

The Kirchhoff charge model is a viable method of generating inexpensive and electrostatically reasonable atomic charges for molecular mechanical force fields. The charging method uses a computationally fast algorithm based on the principle of electronegativity relaxation. Parameters of the method, orbital electronegativities and hardnesses, are fitted to reproduce reference, ab initio calculated dipole and quadrupole moments of a representative training set of neutral and charged organic molecules covering most medicinal chemistry relevant bonding situations. Transferability and accuracy of the derived parameters are confirmed on an external test set. Comparisons to other charge models are made. Implementation of the new Kirchhoff charges into a virtual screening engine is elucidated.     

Properties of atoms in molecules

The electronic charges and the positions of the centers of these charges have been calculated for the atoms of a number of second- and third-row heteronuclear diatomic molecules. For both the oxygen and the fluorine atoms, the charge associated with one of these atoms can be correlated, within a series of molecules containing that atom, with both the orbital energy of the atom's 1s electrons and also with the difference in electronegativities of the atoms that comprise the molecule. The centers of electronic charge are outside of the internuclear regions, except for the positive atoms in the more ionic molecules and in HF.     

Influence of substituent electronegativities on conformational preferences in 1,2-disubstituted ethanes

Ab initio molecular orbital theory has been used to examine internal rotation in the 1,2-disubstituted ethanes, CH₃CH₂—CH₂Li, LiCH₂—CH₂Li and LiCH₂—CH₂F. Interpretation of the rotational potential function is facilitated by decomposition into Fourier components. The rotational potential functions for the three molecules are representative of three distinct classes of conformational behaviour which are characterized by the electronegativities of the substituents. A striking individual result is the preferred cis eclipsed conformation for LiCH₂—CH₂F.     

Assessment of the extended Koopmans' theorem for the chemical reactivity: Accurate computations of chemical potentials,chemical hardnesses,and electrophilicity indices

The extended Koopmans' theorem (EKT) provides a straightforward way to compute ionization potentials and electron affinities from any level of theory. Although it is widely applied to ionization potentials, the EKT approach has not been applied to evaluation of the chemical reactivity. We present the first benchmarking study to investigate the performance of the EKT methods for predictions of chemical potentials (μ) (hence electronegativities), chemical hardnesses (η), and electrophilicity indices (ω). We assess the performance of the EKT approaches for post‐Hartree–Fock methods, such as Møller–Plesset perturbation theory, the coupled‐electron pair theory, and their orbital‐optimized counterparts for the evaluation of the chemical reactivity. Especially, results of the orbital‐optimized coupled‐electron pair theory method (with the aug‐cc‐pVQZ basis set) for predictions of the chemical reactivity are very promising; the corresponding mean absolute errors are 0.16, 0.28, and 0.09 eV for μ, η, and ω, respectively. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

A new scale of atomic electronegativities

A new formula for the calculation of atomic electronegativities from the atomic size and nuclear effective charge is proposed. The formula has the same dimensionality as the one used for the thermochemical scale. The calculated ionic and van der Waals atomic electronegativities are used for the interpretation of the bond nature in binary and coordination compounds (in particular, the bond ionicity is calculated in molecules and crystals of the AB type).Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 32–37, January, 1993.     

电负性与原子价层轨道能

用密度泛函理论论证了原子价层轨道能与元素电负性之间的密切关系，说明如何用原子价层轨道能对元素电负性的概念进行解释，从而使周期表中元素电负性更容易被理解和计算。     

基团电负性研究 VI. 基团电负性与烷基衍生物的标准生成热

本文试用前文建立的基团电负性, 通过研究ΔΔFH°(RX/CH3X)与基团电负性xG的定量关系, 从而建立一个简单方法用以计算几乎所有烷基衍生物RX(X=F, OH, Cl, NH2,Br, SH, I, OH3)的标准生成热。     

Electric dipole polarity of diatomic molecules

The restricted SCF (single-configuration SCF) and MCSCF (multiconfiguration SCF) calculations are performed to compute the ground-state electric dipole moments of four pairs of diatomic molecules—(1) CO and BF; (2) SiO and AlF; (3) CS and BCl; and (4) SiS and AlCl—at a number of internuclear distances on both sides of the equilibrium position. Near Hartree–Fock accuracy is obtained in the SCF calculations. All eight molecules have a range of internuclear distance in which electric dipole moments are of the polarity of A^?B⁺. The shapes of computed electric dipole moment functions are discussed in the language of the molecular orbital method and in relationship to electronegativities of atoms. The present study gives us deeper understanding of electron transfer inside molecules and consequently of the apparent contradiction between electronegativity and the dipole polarity of some molecules. © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.