The effectiveness of solvents as hydrogen bond donors |
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| Authors: | Y. Marcus |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel
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| Abstract: | Taft and Kamlet's  -scale of solvent hydrogen bond donation ability is reexamined with regard to its correlations with three widely used polarity scales: Dimroth and Reichardt's ET(30), Kosower's Z and Mayer's AN, as well as with the m values of the solvents when present as monomeric solutes. The correlation with ET serves to extend the solvent -scale according to the expression:
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