Journal of the American Chemical Society

The Effect of Nuclear Substituents on the Ionic Reactions of Substituted Styrenes. I. The Reaction of Active Methylene Compounds with o-, m-and p-Nitrostyrene1, 2

WJ Dale, CW Strobel

Index: Dale; Strobel Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1954 , vol. 76, p. 6172

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Citation Number: 13

Abstract

Very few data have appeared in the literature which attempt to correlate the electronic effects of ring substituents with the ionic reactions of substituted styrenes. The ionic behavior of styrene is characteristically nucleophilic and styrene does not therefore unite under ordinary conditions with such reagents as amines or metal enolates. However, when a negative group such as the nitro group is conjugated with the double bond, the unsaturated linkage ...