Figure 1. Equilibrium acidities of carbon acids in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solution plotted against intrinsic gas-phase acidities. surprising degree to the intrinsic substituent effects revealed by gas-phase acidities. In other words, the solvent is exerting a relatively constant effect in both the nitrile series and the ketone series. The failure of substituent effects to be attenuated appreciably here is probably associated with the fact that the negative charge ...