title: Ligand(s)-to-metal charge transfer as a factor controlling the equilibrium constants of late first-row transition metal complexes: revealing the Irving-Williams thermodynamical series.
abstract: A unified relationship between the experimental formation constants and the ligand(s)-to-metal charge transfer values of versatile ligand complexes of late transition series first-row bivalent metal ions is uncovered. The latter property not only explicates the Irving-Williams series but also rationalizes quantitatively Pearson's concept of hard and soft acids and bases by correlating the gas-phase to aqueous solution-phase chemistry in a broad sense.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan. pradeep@t.okayama-u.ac.jp byjin@ntu.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Pradeep R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Varadwaj
authors.forename: Arpita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Varadwaj
authors.forename: Bih-Yaw
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Jin