Is Hammett Correlation of Dipole Moments of mono-Substituted Benzenes Helpful to Distinguish o,p-Directing Groups from m-Directing Groups in an Aromatic Electrophilic Substitution? A Chemical Education Perspective

Cortez Deacetis

If the substituent X is an electron withdrawing group, the resonance structures are as shown in scheme 2. At some point two ortho carbons and the para carbon grow to be partially positively charged and X results in being partly negatively charged. Hence there will be a dipole minute in […]