Abstract
In this study, an answer has been sought to several questions: Can substituents’ impact on the electronic properties of molecules in the excited singlet states be summed up by a set of substituent constants? Are the well known, ground state Hammett σ constants practical for this purpose? To answer these questions, the potentials and charges on atoms of the functional groups in two classes of compounds, p-substituted benzoic acids and p-substituted nitrosobenzenes, were regressed against σp. It appeared that all correlations found in the ground state of the molecules also hold in the excited state, with lower correlation coefficients in the latter. An attempt has also been made to find a molecular characteristic which could be useful in a comparison of the acidic properties of benzoic acids (in gas phase) in the first excited and ground states.
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