MERCURI-ORGANIC DERIVATIVES. THE MERCURIZATION OF AROMATIC AMINES AND ITS RELATION TO THE THEORY OF SUBSTITUTION.

MS Kharasch, IM Jacobsohn

Index: Kharasch; Jacobsohn Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1921 , vol. 43, p. 1901

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Abstract

The principles underlying the mercurization of aromatic compounds have occupied the attention of one of us (Kh.) for the past two years. The important fact that, in a mono- substituted benzene derivative, the mercury enters $ x~~ a or ortho to the group already present in the molecule, was pointed out early by Dimr~ th,~ and has been substantiated by the vast amount of experimental work done by others. This fact of ortho and para ...