Elementary Derivation of the "|Δµ| Big Is Good" Rule.
J Phys Chem Lett
; 9(15): 4344-4348, 2018 Aug 02.
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ABSTRACT
Thirty years ago, Parr and Yang postulated that favorable chemical processes are associated with large changes in the electronic chemical potential or, equivalently, the electronegativity. They called this the "|Δµ| big is good" rule and noted that if the rule could be justified, then it "would constitute a validation of frontier theory from first principles." We provide a simple and insightful justification for the "|Δµ| big is good" rule, with special emphasis on electron-transfer reactions. Furthermore, we show that it implies Pearson's hard/soft acid/base principle mathematically and confirm this result with numerical examples. This supports Parr's intuition that many other reactivity precepts arise as corollaries to the more fundamental "|Δµ| big is good" rule. In all of this, it is essential to consider the intensive nature of the chemical potential.
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