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p-Methylanisole as an ambident base. Effect of acid strength on the position of protonation

✍ Scribed by John W. Larsen; M. Eckert-Maksic


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1972
Tongue
French
Weight
207 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-4039

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✦ Synopsis


It has long been recognized that phenols and anisoles can serve as ambident bases in strong acids, protonatlng either on a ring carbon atom or on oxygen.

2 There has been a great deal of interest in these bases quite recently3 and additional mr evidence for the ambident character of phenols and their derivatives in strong acids haa appeared. 4 We wish to report that the ambident behavior of substituted phenols and anisoles is a function of acid strength and temperature and can be used as a probe of solute-solvent interactions in superacid media.