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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem A. 2010 May 13;114(18):5913–5918. doi: 10.1021/jp101329f

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Strong linear correlations (a) between the transition state barrier height ΔE and the total electrostatic energy difference ΔEe and (b) between the steric energy difference ΔEs and the quantum energy difference ΔEq for the SN2 reactions of CR1R2R3F with fluorine anion and 59 substituted groups investigated in this study. See discussion in detail in the text.