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Published March 1949 | public
Journal Article

The Use of Carbon-14 in the Determination of the Structures of Aldoketene Dimers

Abstract

The structures of aldoketene dimers prepared by the dehydrohalogenation of acyl halides have not been conclusively established. Recent infrared spectroscopic studies by Miller and Koch indicate that the parent compound, diketene, is probably an equilibrium mixture of compounds having structures II and III although IV could not be excluded as a component of the mixture by the infrared data.

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© 1949 American Chemical Society. Received October 9, 1948. We wish to acknowledge the assistance of Miss Winifred Bennett with the radioactivity analyses and Mr. D. R. Smith with the preparation of the radioactive propionyl chloride. Assisted by the joint program of the Office of Naval Research and the Atomic Energy Commission. Presented at the St. Louis Meeting of the American Chemical Society, September 7, 1948.

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