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The Chemical Educator
ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 15
(2010) pp 392-393
A Brief History of the Development of Our Knowledge of the Mechanisms of the Elbs and Boyland-Sims Oxidations with Some Pedagogical Suggestions
Edward J. Behrman
Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University,
484
W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, 43210, Behrman.1@osu.edu
Received August
25, 2010. Accepted September 23, 2010.
Published: 16 December 2010
Abstract. Peroxydisulfate ions react with phenols and with aromatic amines to produce ring-substituted sulfate esters. The history of the discovery of the mechanisms of these reactions is discussed together with some suggestions for exercises in courses in mechanistic organic chemistry.
Key Words: Laboratories and Demonstrations; organic chemistry
(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: Behrman.1@osu.edu)
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