Homopolar and Heteropolar Bond Dissociation Energies and Heats of Formation of Radicals and Ions in the Gas Phase II. The relationship between structure and bond dissociation in organic molecules

The preceeding paper presents a critical tabular compilation of 2-center homo- and heteropolar bond dissociation energies. This paper deals with some empirically derived general aspects of these data, particularly regarding relationships between structure and reactivity, i.e. substituent effects on bond dissociation energies. ‘Extra’ stabilization energies generated in electronically delocalized radicals or ions derived from these experimental data are also presented.