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A molecular entity (and the corresponding chemical species ) able to provide a pair of electrons and thus capable of coordination to a Lewis acid , thereby producing a Lewis adduct .
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The thermodynamic tendency of a substance to act as a Lewis base . Comparative measures of this property are provided by the equilibrium constants for Lewis adduct formation for a series of Lewis bases with a common reference Lewis acid .
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The lifetime of a chemical species which decays in a first-order process is the time needed for a concentration of this species to decrease to 1/e of its original value. Statistically, it represents the mean life expectancy of an excited species. In a reacting system in which the decrease in concentration of a particular chemical species is governed by a first-order rate law , it is equal to the reciprocal of the sum of the (pseudo)unimolecular rate constants of all processes which cause the decay. When the term is used for processes which are not first order, the lifetime depends on the initial concentration of the species, or of a quencher, and should be called apparent lifetime instead.
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The lifetime of a chemical species which decays in a first-order process is the time needed for a concentration of this species to decrease to 1/e of its original value. Statistically, it represents the mean life expectancy of an excited species. In a reacting system in which the decrease in concentration of a particular chemical species is governed by a first-order rate law , it is equal to the reciprocal of the sum of the (pseudo)unimolecular rate constants of all processes which cause the decay. When the term is used for processes which are not first order, the lifetime depends on the initial concentration of the species, or of a quencher, and should be called apparent lifetime instead.
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If it is possible to indicate a "central atom" in a polyatomic molecular entity , the atoms or groups bound to that atom are called ligands. The term is generally used in connection with metallic "central atoms".
In biochemistry a part of a polyatomic molecular entity may be considered central, and atoms, groups or molecules bound to that part are considered ligands.
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A linear correlation between the logarithm of a rate constant or equilibrium constant for one series of reactions and the logarithm of the rate constant or equilibrium constant for a related series of reactions. Typical examples of such relations (also known as linear Gibbs energy relations) are the Brønsted relation , and the Hammett equation.
The name arises because the logarithm of an equilibrium constant (at constant temperature and pressure) is proportional to a standard free energy (Gibbs energy) change, and the logarithm of a rate constant is a linear function of the free energy (Gibbs energy) of activation.
It has been suggested that this name should be replaced by Linear Gibbs Energy Relation , but at present there is little sign of acceptance of this change.
The area of physical organic chemistry which deals with such relations is commonly referred to as "Linear Free-Energy Relationships".
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Equations involving the application of solvent parameters in linear or multiple (linear) regression expressing the solvent effect on the rate or equilibrium constant of a reaction.
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Determination of rate constants for a chemical exchange from the shapes of spectroscopic lines of dynamic processes. The method is most often used in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
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Literally "fat-loving". Applied to molecular entities (or parts of molecular entities) having a tendency to dissolve in fat-like (e.g. hydrocarbon) solvents.
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