Transferability

"This page is about transferability in chemistry. Transferability in economics also exists."

Transferability, in chemistry, is the assumption that a chemical property that is associated with an atom or a functional group in a molecule will have a similar (but not identical) value in a variety of different circumstances. [" [http://goldbook.iupac.org/T06441.html Transferability] ". "Compendium of Chemical Terminology".] Examples of transferable properties include:
*Electronegativity
*Nucleophilicity
*Chemical shifts in NMR spectroscopy
*Characteristic frequencies in Infrared spectroscopy

Transferable properties are distinguished from "conserved properties", which are assumed to always have the same value whatever the chemical situation, e.g. relative atomic mass.

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