A Theoretical Formulation of the Hammett Equation

Authors

Gordon A. Gallup, UNLFollow
W.R. Gilkerson, University of Kansas - Lawrence
M.M. Jones, University of Kansas - Lawrence

Date of this Version

December 1952

Comments

Trans. Kan. Acad. Sci., 55, 232 (1952). Copyright © 1952 by the Kansas Academy of Science. Permission to use.

Abstract

A relation, which reduces to the form of Hammett's equation, has been derived. Reactions which can be assumed to be of the form ion-dipole or dipole-dipole have been considered. The logarithms of the ratios of rate constants were calculated and compared with experimental values in the form of Hammett's equation constants.