
%0 Journal Article
%A Mirarchi, D 
%A Phillips, L 
%A Lumbroso, H 
%A Ritchie, GLD 
%T Conformational preferences of the benzenedicarbaldehydes: an <I>ab initio</I> molecular-orbital, dipole-moment and Kerr-effect study
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1984/03/01
%V 37
%N 3
%P 465-473
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9840465
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9840465 
%X Ab initio molecular orbital theory at the STO-3G level is used to elucidate the structures and relative abundances of stable conformations of the three benzenedicarbaldehydes. In addition, new measurements of the infinite-dilution dipole moments and molar Kerr constants of these molecules as solutes in dioxan at 25ºC are reported and analysed. The previously recognized inability of the simple group- additivity model to reliably predict the anisotropy in the polarizability of benzene-1,4-dicarbaldehyde is shown to be due to a redistribution of the polarizability in the molecular plane. 
