Journal of the American Chemical Society

The reactivity of atoms and groups in organic compounds. XII. The preparation and properties of mixed aliphatic ethers with special reference to those containing the …

JF Norris, GW Rigby

Index: Norris; Rigby Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1932 , vol. 54, p. 2098

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Citation Number: 86

Abstract

The influence of structure on the lability of bonds in organic molecules is shown in a marked degree by compounds which contain a tertiary radical. For example, the tert.-butyl alcohol reacts with concentrated hydrochloric acid over 200,000 times as rapidly as does n-butyl alcohol. It seemed of interest, therefore, to determine whether or not the facts accumulated in connection with the study of the lability of the carbonoxygen and of the hydrogen-oxygen ...