Super-Aromatic Properties of Furan. II. The Friedel—Crafts Reaction

H Gilman, NO Calloway

Index: Gilman; Calloway Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1933 , vol. 55, p. 4197,4200

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Abstract

The scission of furylphenyllead and furylthienyllead compounds by hydrogen chloride has been presented as evidence in support of the superaromatic nature of furan.'In a by-and- large definition of aromatic compounds and aromatic properties, the Friedel-Crafts reaction is important historically as one of a small number of transformations peculiarly characteristic of aromatic compounds. 2 We now know that this reaction is shown not only by ...