Robert W. Taft

A scale of directional substituent polarizability parameters from ab initio calculations of polarizability potentials

Warren J. Hehre, C. F. Pau, Allan D. Headley et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1986 · 1.3K citations

Engineering, Altmetric Attention Score, Polar Environments +19

Linear solvation energy relations

Robert W. Taft, José‐Luis M. Abboud, Mortimer J. Kamlet et al. · Journal of Solution Chemistry · 1985 · 568 citations

Engineering, Natural Sciences, Solvation Chemistry +6

Polar and Steric Substituent Constants for Aliphatic and o-Benzoate Groups from Rates of Esterification and Hydrolysis of Esters¹

Robert W. Taft · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1952 · 503 citations

Altmetrics, Chemical Engineering, Engineering +14

Linear solvation energy relationship. 46. An improved equation for correlation and prediction of octanol/water partition coefficients of organic nonelectrolytes (including strong hydrogen bond donor solutes)

Mortimer J. Kamlet, Ruth M. Doherty, Michael H. Abraham et al. · The Journal of Physical Chemistry · 1988 · 449 citations

Improved Equation, Engineering, Altmetric Attention Score +19

The Gas-Phase Acidities of Very Strong Neutral Bronsted Acids

Ilmar A. Koppel, Robert W. Taft, Frederick Anvia et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1994 · 414 citations

Chemical Engineering, Molecular Sciences, Gas-phase Acidities +12