The molar kerr constants, dipole moments, and relaxation times of Methyl and Ethyl Maleates and fumarates, Ethyl Formate, Diethyl Oxalate, and of Ethyl and Propyl Azodiformates

Abstract

Values for the properties and compounds named in the title are recorded at infinite dilution in carbon tetrachloride at 25 °C. Dipole moments of the seven diesters lie between 2 2 and 2.8 D ; the molar Kerr constants of the two azodiformates however differ from those of the maleates, fumarates, and oxalate in being negative. Results with ethyl oxalate are consistent with a structure in which the two ?CO₂Et groups are in planes making an azimuthal angle c. 90°. Indications of configurations for the other esters are discussed, but conclusions are indefinite.