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IN a compound of the type X.(CH = CH)nY, the conjugated system is an electronic conductor between the covalent groups X and Y, and there must therefore be a correspondence between such chemical properties of the compound as leave the conjugated system intact and those of the covalent compound X. Y. This generalization has been recognized in the particular case of carbonyl compounds, but its wide value as a very general means of insight into the reactivity, as well as the mechanism of reactivity, of the compound X.Y, seems to have been overlooked.
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KENNER, J. A Property of Conjugated Systems. Nature 147, 482 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147482a0
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