This review aims to be a comprehensive, authoritative, critical, and accessible review of
general interest to the chemistry community; because the electrophilicity index is a very …

Chemistry is the science of bond making and bond breaking. A thorough knowledge of these
processes in the course of the chemical reaction lies at the heart of any reaction mechanism …

This paper results from a round table discussion at the CCTC2018 Conference in Changsha
City, Hunan, China, in December 2018. It presents a report on the status, prospects, and …

We investigate the physical basis, validity, and limitations of the minimum electrophilicity
principle, MEP, which postulates that the sum of the electrophilicity indices,∑ ω, of the …

Chemical hardness is considered to be a useful theoretical descriptor in many experimental
and theoretical studies and this concept has several important applications in chemistry. In …

The chemical hardness introduced by Pearson in 1960s is an extremely useful theoretical
descriptor. It is apparent that principles such as hard and soft acids and bases (HSAB) and …

This paper presents a new technique for estimation of lattice energies of inorganic ionic
compounds using a simple formula. This new method demonstrates the relationship …

Electronegativity is a fundamental concept in chemistry that allows one to infer important
aspects about the interactions between chemical species. In the present work we make use …

Controlling the distribution of electrons in materials is the holy grail of chemistry and material
science. Practical attempts at this feat are common but are often reliant on simplistic …

Chemical reactivity is discussed in terms of various conceptual density functional theory
based global and local reactivity descriptors like electronegativity, chemical hardness and …