title: Transferability (chemistry)
text: # Transferability (chemistry)
  
  In chemistry, transferability 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. Examples of transferable properties include:
  
  * Electronegativity
  * Nucleophilicity
  * Chemical shifts in NMR spectroscopy
  * Characteristic frequencies in Infrared spectroscopy
  * Bond length and bond angle
  * Bond energy
  
  Transferable properties are distinguished from conserved properties, which are assumed to always have the same value whatever the chemical situation, e.g. standard atomic weight.
  
  