Certain fundamental concepts relating to non-polar mechanisms in oleflnic systems
✍ Scribed by Farmer, E. H.
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1947
- Weight
- 917 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0368-4075
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The application of polar concepts to the interpretation and systematisation of experimental observations in the field of organic chemistry has had such striking success and usefulness during the past 25 years that the concepts have become an integral part of organised chemical knowledge. Recent years, however, have seen the steady accumulation of experimental results which do not fit in the polar scheme and these may be rationally and consistently interpreted as resulting from the occurrence of apolar types of reaction in which the participants are short‐lived neutral entities (molecules or atoms) displaying free‐radical characteristics. On the apolar basis the author outlines a hypothetical correlation of a considerable array of experimental results with which he has been concerned—both as an immediate aid to making sense of what would otherwise seem to be unusually complicated and unintelligible, and with the hope that the views tentatively advanced will furnish suggestive starting points for future kinetic experimentation.