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IN some recent memoirs Kharasch1 has observed that the dominant factor in the addition of hydrogen bromide to some olefinic substances is the presence or absence of oxygen. For example, the slow combination of hydrogen bromide and vinyl bromide forming ethylidene bromide gives place to a rapid formation of ethylene bromide if air is admitted.
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Kharasch and Mayo, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 55, 2468 ; 1933. Kharasch, McNab and Mayo, ibid., 2521, 2531.
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SMITH, J. Addition of Hydrogen Bromide to Olefines. Nature 132, 447 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132447a0
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