[citation needed] IUPAC has suggested that this name should be replaced by linear Gibbs energy relation, but at present there is little sign of acceptance of this change.
[1] The area of physical organic chemistry which deals with such relations is commonly referred to as 'linear free-energy relationships'.
Abraham and co-workers):[3][4] where SP is some free-energy related property, such as an adsorption or absorption constant, log K, anesthetic potency, etc.
The lowercase letters (e, s, a, b, l) are system constants describing the contribution of the aerosol phase to the sorption process.
Specifically, The complementary system constants are identified as Similarly, the correlation of solvent–solvent partition coefficients as log SP, is given by where V is McGowan's characteristic molecular volume in cubic centimeters per mole divided by 100.