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Influence of Hydrostatic Pressure on Orientation in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitutions

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M. G. GONIKBERG et al.1–3 have recently found that at high pressures the attack of phenyl radicals on tertiary butyl benzene yields an appreciably higher proportion of the sterically strained 2-phenyl isomer than it does at atmospheric pressure.

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COILLET, D., HAMANN, S. Influence of Hydrostatic Pressure on Orientation in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitutions. Nature 200, 166–167 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200166b0

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