TY - JOUR
T1 - Merit of ground-state electronegativities; A reply to Comments on Introduction to the chemistry of fractionally charged atoms
T2 - Electronegativity
AU - Lackner, Klaus S.
AU - Zweig, George
PY - 1987/1/1
Y1 - 1987/1/1
N2 - The arguments presented in the Comment by Liebman and Huheey are shown to be incorrect. The operational equivalence of Mulliken ground-state electronegativities and Pauling electronegativities is demonstrated for neutral atoms. It is shown that ground-state electronegativities and valence-state electronegativities for both neutral atoms and ions are also operationally equivalent. A single electronegativity scale based on Mulliken ground-state electronegativities may therefore be used for neutral atoms, ions, and fractionally charged atoms, as originally implied in the paper by Lackner and Zweig.
AB - The arguments presented in the Comment by Liebman and Huheey are shown to be incorrect. The operational equivalence of Mulliken ground-state electronegativities and Pauling electronegativities is demonstrated for neutral atoms. It is shown that ground-state electronegativities and valence-state electronegativities for both neutral atoms and ions are also operationally equivalent. A single electronegativity scale based on Mulliken ground-state electronegativities may therefore be used for neutral atoms, ions, and fractionally charged atoms, as originally implied in the paper by Lackner and Zweig.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.36.1562
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.36.1562
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000224355
VL - 36
SP - 1562
EP - 1569
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 5
ER -