A New Relation Connecting Vibrationai Constant and Electronegativity in the Case of Diatomic Molecules

The electronegativity was defined by Pauling¹ as a measure of the power of an atom in the molecule to attract electrons to itself. This concept of electronegativity has undergone radical changes. Recent calculations of electronegativity show^2,3 that it is a complex quantity including an important atomic term depending on the charge and hybridization of the atom, and a molecular term depending on the length and the nature of the bonds in the molecule. In a molecular group of the type A-B, B is a halogen atom, say chlorine and A stands for different atoms of a subgroup of the periodic table. Since the nature of the bonds in the molecule AB and the electronegativity of halogen atom, B, is constant for a molecular group, the electronegativity, X, of atom A may be related to the dissociation energy and bond length which in its turn is related to the vibrational constant,ω_e, and the reduced mass, μ, of the molecule AB.