An Investigation of the Mills-Nixon Effect

LF Fieser, WC Lothrop

Index: Fieser; Lothrop Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1936 , vol. 58, p. 2050,2054

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Citation Number: 13

Abstract

In an important and much-discussed1 paper, Mills and Nixon% advanced the hypothesis that hydrindene, or a given substituted hydrindene, is in a condition of less strain when it has the bond structure shown in formula I than when it exists in the alternate Kekulk form (11) in which the carbon atoms common to the two rings are con-