The possible inductive and steric influences on the optical stability of 3-substituted N- benzene-sulfonyl-N-carboxymethylmesidines have been reported.'The influence of field effect alone on the half-lives of such systems has also been studied. 2 More recently, research on 3-substituted mesidine derivatives was extended to a comparison of the stability of N-benezenesulfonyl-N-carboxymethyl-t-butylmesidine with the corresponding ...