Correlating acidities, electron affinities, and bond dissociation energies. Measure one, get all three!

A linear relation between delta-H(super degree) (sub acid)(HX), EA[X(sub .)], and BDE(HX) is shown for specific classes of compounds and only one of these quantities is needed to determine the others. The intercepts obtained from plots of delta-H(super degree) (sub acid)(HX) vs EA[X(sub .)] provide bond energies which correspond to BDE(HX) when EA[X(sub .)] = 0.