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IT is well known that the introduction of chlorine atoms into acetic acid causes a rapid rise of dissociation constant (see accompanying table). If changes in the value of K are taken as a measure of the effect of the chlorine atoms, it would appear that the second chlorine atom has a greater effect than the first, and the third a greater effect than the second.
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Jenkins, Nature, 145, 625 (1940), quoted by Watson, "Modern Theories of Organic Chemistry", 27 (Oxford, 1941).
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SHORTER, J., STUBBS, F. Strengths of the Chloro-acetic Acids. Nature 163, 65 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163065a0
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