ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS IN PHENYL ACETATES AND ACETANILIDES
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1958
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Ohio State University
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“The relative importance of an inductive vs. a resonance mechanism for the high carbonyl absorption frequency of phenyl acetate and acetanilide has been investigated. A study of the C-O frequency shifts in their meta and para-subtituted derivatives clearly shows that the inductive mechanism is responsible for the frequency shift in phenyl acetate, but a resonance mechanism is more appropriate in the acetanilides. This is supported by a study of their respective Stuart-Briegleb molecular models which, on the basis of steric inhibition of resonance due to lack of coplanarity within the molecule, indicates that a resonance mechanism is relatively unimportant in phenyl acetate.”
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Author Institution: Eastern Research Laboratory, The Dow Chemical Company