A recent argument, based on published experimental results, claims to support the hypothesis that there is a significant charge-transfer contribution to the ground-state stabilisation of typical π-donor–π*-acceptor complexes. The argument is based on a fortuitous linear relationship. Other experimental results show that this conclusion is unjustified.
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