Molecular complexes. Part III. Preliminary investigations and some comments on the method of formation of complexes of aliphatic molecules with benzene

Abstract

The mechanism of complex formation, for some haloforms, chloroethylenes, methyl halides, and nitroform with benzene, is shown to depend on the polarisation of benzene by the electric fields arising from the polar bonds in the above-named aliphatic compounds, and to be independent of whether or not the solute has a resultant electric dipole moment.