Inductive Effect: A Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules Perspective
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Substituent effects are ubiquitous in chemistry and the most fundamental is the inductive effect. In this study, the so-called inductive effect was probed in derivatives of bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane-1-carboxylic acid using the isodesmic reaction energy of the acid-base deprotonation, calculated at the PBE0/6-31++G(d,p) level of theory (used throughout). Although structure, molecular orbitals, and nuclear magnetic shielding parameters are discussed, the main focus of this study is the use of the quantum theory of atoms in molecules to analyze the electron density distribution. It was observed that the effect propagates via the manipulation of atomic dipole moments controlled by that of the substituent. As the dipole moment conforms to the principle of atomic transferability, it is found that the substituent dipole determined in simple systems (e.g., R-H) can be used to describe the effect upon the bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane-1-carboxylic acid system.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".