
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Atwal, RK 
A1  - Bolton, R 
T1  - Nucleophilic Displacement in Polyhalogenoaromatic Compounds. XIII. Polyfluoroarene Systems
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1987
VL  - 40
IS  - 2
SP  - 241
EP  - 247
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9870241 
N2  - Rate coefficients are reported for the methoxydefluorination of decafluoro-biphenyl and -phen-anthrene, of octafluoro-biphenylene, -naphthalene, -acenaphthylene, and -toluene, of 4H- heptafluorotoluene and the 4-bromo and 4-phenyl analogues, and of tetradecafluoro-4,4'- dimethylbiphenyl in methanol at 298 K. These rates are compared with theoretically calculated reactivities; none give perfect correlation. The orientation of nucleophilic attack upon polyfluorinated aromatic systems may be simply understood by considering each aromatic ring to act as a single entity and neglecting the effects of the carbon substituents, so that the orientation of attack of each benzene ring is the same as that of the corresponding polyfluorobenzene. 
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