Bond strengths of toluenes, anilines, and phenols: To hammett or not

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 334-340

  Pratt, Derek A ^a   Dilabio, Gino A ^b   Mulder, Peter ^c   Ingold, K U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANILINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORIDE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; TOLUENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROPHILIC SUBSTITUENT CONSTANT; ENTHALPY; HAMMETT EQUATION; HOMOLYTIC PROPERTY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

EID: 2442711469     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar010010k     Document Type: Article

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