Electronegativity

Electronegativity describes the relative ability of an atom within a molecule to attract a shared pair of electrons to itself. We have chosen to use Pauling electronegativity values, which are unitless.

Electronegativities of the elements were obtained from the 81th edition of the CRC HANDBOOK OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, D. R. Lide, Ed., CRC Press, Inc., 2000. Data from the CRC HANDBOOK OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS was collected online at:

http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?BookID=34 (accessed July, 2002)