For
Brønsted bases, the tendency of a compound to act as
hydron (
proton) acceptor. The basicity of a
chemical species is normally expressed by the
acidity of the conjugate acid (see
conjugate acid–base pair). For Lewis bases it relates to the
association constants of
Lewis adducts and
π-adducts.
Source:
PAC, 1994, 66, 1077
(Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994))
on page 1088
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A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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