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Quantumchemical calculations

To assess absolute chemical potentials of the proton in solution, we developed the rCCC model for the computation of Gibbs solvation energies of the proton in arbitrary solvents.

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Above: Comparison of the accessible absolute Brønsted acidities given by their ΔsolvGo(H+) (eq. (2)) or pHabs (eq. (3)) values in different media as expressed by the width of their protochemical window (= pKAP).