THE chlorination of benzoic acid in alkaline solution by means of sodium hypochlorite is often quoted as an example of the effect of ionisation on orientation. Lossen's experiments 1 have been ...
The classic textbook version preferentially installs the chlorine atom on the more substituted carbon in the bond, according to a selectivity principle known as the Markovnikov rule. Sticking the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I live in Cambridge, so, like many other wardrobes in town, mine contains an odd Edwardian throwback. A ...