Figure 3.
Fig. 3. Correlation between the Mulliken charge on the
nucleophilic oxygen atom and the experimentally observed second
order rate constant (36) for the attack of phenolate,
p-cyanophenolate, p-chlorophenolate and p-ethoxycarboxyphenolate
on methyl 2,4-dinitrophenyl phosphate (n = 4, R2 = 0.9844).
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