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Title: Ritchie's N+ Scale for Carbocations
Post by: Mitch on August 31, 2004, 03:17:28 AM

Is anyone familiar with this scale of carbocations? The Y-axis is log(K_NU) how can a constant change it's value? Any help would be appreciated.

Title: Re:Ritchie's N+ Scale for Carbocations
Post by: AWK on August 31, 2004, 03:47:51 AM

http://www.nicmila.org/Gold/Output/R05402.xhtml

Title: Re:Ritchie's N+ Scale for Carbocations
Post by: Mitch on August 31, 2004, 12:27:34 PM

Thanks, I think I understand. K_N isn't plotted for a single reaction but for a bunch of carbocation and nucleophile reactions.

Title: Re:Ritchie's N+ Scale for Carbocations
Post by: movies on August 31, 2004, 03:34:34 PM

Is this something like a Hammet correlation?