The Question of Orientation in the Introduction of the Triphenylmethyl Radical into Solvent Substrates of Toluene, Chlorobenzene and Methyl Benzoate. The Tritylation …

RA Benkeser, RB Gosnell

Index: Benkeser; Gosnell Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1956 ,  vol. 78, p. 4914            

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Abstract

Several errors in the literature have been detected, particularly in connection with the structural assignments of m-and p-tritylbenzoic acids. The inference that the trityl radical (in the presence of benzoyl peroxide) enters exclusively into the para position of various solvent substrates like toluene, chlorobenzene and methylbenzoate to form para-substituted tetraphenylmethanes has been disproved. It has also been found that triphenylcarbinol ...