453. The reduction and hydrolysis of o-, m-, and p-nitrophenetoles

DH Richardson, FW Smith

Index: Richardson; Smith Journal of the Chemical Society, 1932 , p. 2955

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Abstract

THE views of Lapworth, Robinson, and Ingold have provided a satisfactory explanation of the effect of the nitro-group on the mobility of an atom or radical ortho or para to it in the benzene ring, but the complementary effect of this radical on the reducibility of the nitro- group does not appear to have been investigated from a similar standpoint. Bacon and Richardson (this vol., p. 884) have shown that m-chloronitrobenzene is reduced in N@- ...