We have successfully developed a new synthetic approach to modulate the electrostatic potentials of metallocavitands and thus their selective recognition towards substituted benzene derivatives via integrating two metal cations of different electronegativity into a self-assembled system.

This paper calls attention to the early work of the American chemists Worth Rodebush and Groves Cartledge, and their anticipations of a quantitative electronegativity scale, which predate the classic 1932 paper of Linus Pauling by several years.

We show here that an economic basis set can describe nucleic acid base pairs involving the hydrogen bond interactions in density functional calculations. The economic basis set in which the polarization function is added only to oxygen and nitrogen atoms of strong electronegativity can predict reliable geometric structures and dipole moment of nucleic acid base pairs, comparable to those obtain...

From a consideration of odd-even intramolecular electron transfer processes in octahedrally co-ordinated transition metal complexes, two relationships have been derived. The first correlation describes 71 —> y3 optical electron transfer bands of the complexes K20sC l6 , K2IrCl6 , K2PtCl6 , K2PtCl4 as a function of the respective 35C1 nuclear quadrupole coupling constants. The second rela­ tions...

The effects of alloying on the lattice dynamics of vanadium were investigated using inelastic neutron scattering. Phonon densities of states were obtained for bcc solid solutions of V with 3d, 4d, and 5d transition metal solutes, from which vibrational entropies of alloying were obtained. A good correlation is found between the vibrational entropy of alloying and the electronegativity of transi...