The Influence of n-Alkyl Groups on the Rate of a Cyclization Reaction

E Berliner

Index: Berliner Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1944 , vol. 66, p. 533

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Abstract

A general inductive ef€ ect, which is described as manifesting itself in a feeble electron- release character, is attributed to alkyl groups.'This effect is considered to increase with the amount of branching in the order: methyl, ethyl, i-propyl, t-butyl, and with increasing length of a normal alkyl chain from methyl to about n-propyl or n-butyl, where a maximum is reached beyond which the effect is usually not transmitted. The nature and order of the effect are ...