Methoxycarbonylation of substituted benzenes. Effect of the electronic configuration of carbon radicals in homolytic substitutions

M Fiorentino, L Testaferri, M Tiecco…

Index: Fiorentino,M. et al. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1976 , vol. 41, p. 173 - 175

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Abstract

From studies of relative rates and isomer distributions in homolytic substitutions it emerged that one of the factors affecting the polar nature of carbon-centered radicals is the hybridization of the orbital carrying the unpaired electron; because the s orbital has higher electronegativity than the p orbital, it can be expected that the greater the s character of an orbital, the greater will be its electronegativity and hence the lower will be the ...