Journal of the American Chemical Society

A New Method of Evaluating ortho σ-Constants

IJ Solomon, R Filler

Index: Solomon,I.J.; Filler,R. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1963 , vol. 85, p. 3492 - 3496

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Citation Number: 26

Abstract

V These results furnish indirect evidence for the opera- tion of the addition-elimination mechanism in the previously reported2 hydrogen-deuterium exchanges with acyclic a$-unsaturated compounds such as chalcone. Experimental6 p-Phenylindenone (II).-This compound was prepared by a new method involving dehydrogenation of 8-phenylindanone through its dicarbanion.' The liquid product was characterized as its p-nitrophenylhydrazone, mp 266-267", reported* mp ...