posted on 2007-07-05, 00:00authored byFreija De Vleeschouwer, Veronique Van Speybroeck, Michel Waroquier, Paul Geerlings, Frank De Proft
Radicals can be regarded as electrophilic/nucleophilic, depending on their tendency to attack sites of relatively higher/lower electron density.
In this paper, an electrophilicity scale, global as well as local, and a nucleophilicity scale for 35 radicals is reported. The global electrophilicity
scale correlates well with the nucleophilicity scale, suggesting that these concepts are inversely related.