Journal of the American Chemical Society

THE ELECTRON AFFINITY OF FREE RADICALS. III. FURTHER STUDIES OF FREE RADICALS CONTAINING BIPHENYL AND NAPHTHYL GROUPS

HE Bent, M Dorfman

Index: Bent; Dorfman Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1932 , vol. 54, p. 1393,1400

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Abstract

The addition of an alkali metal to an unsaturated compound is a type of reaction which is peculiarly adapted for study in connection with the problem of finding the effect on the strength of a given bond of various substitutions in a molecule. Heats of combustion and dissociation constants of acids give similar data but have their own peculiar limitations. Heats of combustion are commonly so large as to mask very largely changes in a single ...