°The limits of the electron affinities were estimated using D(H-X) and EA(X) for X = Cl, Br, and I from R. S. Berry and C. W. Riemann, J. Chem. Phys., 38, 1540 (1963). 6 Accurate values for phenol and several substituted phenols were recently determined (Lee R. Mahoney, private communication) to be 84-90 kcal/mol. These results indicate that the bond energies of phenol, p-nitrophenol, and picric acid will not be identical. However, the same value (88.3 kcal/mol) is used here in order to define the order of electron affinities. c Determined to be 55.0 kcal/mol, from recent studies of ( -A) -EA{Af and bond energy (L. R. Mahoney, private communication). d Accurate values for aromatic and aliphatic carboxylic acids are not available. The same value of 110 kcal/mol was used for both types of acids, from ref 5a. c Now known to be 79 kcal/mol.1 > Estimated on basis of Z)(C12CH-H) = 80 kcal/mol from ref 5a. » Estimated on the basis of Z>(C6-
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