Journal of the American Chemical Society

Tri-o-tolylmethane

PD Bartlett, JE Jones

Index: Bartlett; Jones Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1942 , vol. 64, p. 1837,1840

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Abstract

The results of Marvel and his co-workers* suggest that the unknown hexa-o-tolylethane would, if prepared, be largely if not completely dissociated into free radicals. Because the ortho-substituted triarylmethyls are incapable of assuming the coplanar arrangement demanded by the usual resonance structures,* their further study seems to offer an approach to the puzzling question of the role of resonance in promoting free radical ...