Transferability (chemistry)

In chemistry, transferability is the assumption that a chemical property that is associated with an atom or a functional group in a molecule will have a similar (but not identical) value in a variety of different circumstances.Transferability
. ''Compendium of Chemical Terminology''. Examples of transferable properties include:
*Electronegativity
*Nucleophilicity
*Chemical shifts in NMR spectroscopy
*Characteristic frequencies in Infrared spectroscopy
*Bond length and bond angle
*Bond energy

Transferable properties are distinguished from ''conserved properties'', which are assumed to always have the same value whatever the chemical situation, e.g. standard atomic weight.

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