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SOME time ago, I completed an X-ray analysis of the crystal structure of dibenzyl1, and showed that the results could best be explained by a three-dimensional model of the molecule, in which the planes of the benzene rings were at right angles to the plane containing the zig-zag of the connecting CH2 groups, as shown in Fig. 1. The structure is thus an interesting contrast to those aromatic compounds like naphthalene and durene in which all the carbon atoms of the molecule are found to lie in one plane. FIG. 1.
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Proc. Roy. Soc, A, 1934, in the press.
Current Science, 2, 480, June 1934.
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ROBERTSON, J. Shape of the Dibenzyl Molecule. Nature 134, 381 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134381a0
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