CCL: Quantitative measure for susceptibility to nucleophilic attack?

[Seth Olsen <s.olsen1 a uq.edu.au>]

 Sent to CCL by: Seth Olsen [s.olsen1],[uq.edu.au]
 Hi CCLers,
I am interested in techniques which can provide a measure of
 susceptibility to nucleophilic attack in a particular fragment across a
 series of molecules. The goal is to have a quantitative measure of how
 different substitutents at another site affect the likelihood of
 nucleophilic attack at the site of interest.
This is somewhat removed from the areas of electronic structure to
 which
 I am accustomed. I understand from reading Bader's book that divots and
 bumps in the lapacian of the density can be an indication of these, but
 I was wondering if there was something a little more straightforward to
 analyze.
 Can anyone point me to some references?
 Many Thanks,
 Seth
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 Dr Seth Olsen, PhD
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 Centre for Computational Molecular Science
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