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This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_group_increment_theory\n\n\n00:01:20 1 Origin
00:06:40 2 Applications
00:12:15 3 Limitations
00:12:34 3.1 Inaccuracy
00:13:18 3.2 Group Availability
00:13:59 3.3 Ring Strain, Intermolecular and Intramolecular Interactions
\n\n\nListening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.\n\nLearning by listening is a great way to:\n- increases imagination and understanding\n- improves your listening skills\n- improves your own spoken accent\n- learn while on the move\n- reduce eye strain\n\nNow learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.\n\nListen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:\nhttps://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91\nOther Wikipedia audio articles at:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts\nUpload your own Wikipedia articles through:\nhttps://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts\nSpeaking Rate: 0.7752035328432302\nVoice name: en-GB-Wavenet-D\n\n\n"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."\n- Socrates\n\n\nSUMMARY\n=======\nBenson Group Increment Theory (BGIT) or Group Increment Theory or Benson Group Additivity, uses the experimentally calculated heat of formation for individual groups of atoms to calculate the entire heat of formation for a molecule under investigation. This can be a quick and convenient way to determine theoretical heats of formation without conducting tedious experiments. The technique was developed by the late Professor Sidney William Benson of the University of Southern California. It is further described in a separate Wiki page.
Heats of formations are intimately related to bond dissociation energies and thus are important in understanding chemical structure and reactivity. Furthermore, although the theory is old, it still is practically useful as one of the best group additivity methods aside from computational methods such as molecular mechanics. However, the BGIT has its limitations, and thus cannot always predict the precise heat of formation.