Abstract
This chapter discusses several relationships between structure and reactivity of molecules. One of the relationships discussed is quadratic free energy relationships (QFER). Chemical reactivity can be understood both as the ability of individual molecules to take part in various chemical reactions as well as the study of rates of such reactions, that is, equilibrium and rate processes. Rate constants depend largely on the ability to relate them with reaction energies and molecular structure. Chemical reactivity depends on energy relationships along the reaction coordinate. It is one of the fundamental assumptions of chemical knowledge that like substances react similarly and that similar changes in structure produce similar changes in reactivity. Other relationships described in the chapter are linear free energy relationships (LFER), Hammond postulate, reactivity–selectivity principle (RSP), relationships of the electronic effect, and Bell–Evans–Polanyi relationship.
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