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Dipole Moments of Aliphatic and Aromatic Amines

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AN investigation of the influence of the solvent on the dipole moments of aliphatic and aromatic amines was commenced some years ago1; but many of the results have not yet been published. A recent paper2 has duplicated some of the work of this research. The accompanying table includes a selection of the measurements of the dipole moments of amines, some of which have not previously been determined. In the case of n-propyl and n-butyl-amines, the substituted anilines, with the exception of n-propyl and ethyl-n-propylanilines, and diphenyl-amine, which were investigated in benzene at 25° by Le Fèvre et al.2, the agreement between the two sets of results is very good. No values of the dipole moments of di-n-propyl, tri-n-propyl, di-n-butyl-amines, n-propyl and ethyl-n-propylanilines, and of the other compounds in solvents other than benzene, are available. In the aromatic series, aniline has been studied in solution1,3 and aniline and dimethylaniline in the vapour state4.

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  1. Cowley and Partington, J. Chem. Soc., 1598 (1938).

  2. Barclay, Le Fèvre and Smythe, Trans. Farad. Soc., 47, 357 (1951).

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  3. See, for example, Le Fèvre, Roberts and Smythe, J. Chem. Soc., 902 (1949). Few and Smith, J. Chem. Soc., 3057 (1949).

  4. Groves and Sugden, J. Chem. Soc., 1782 (1937).

  5. μ = 1.68 D. in benzene at 20°: Cowley and Partington, J. Chem. Soc., 1255 (1933).

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COWLEY, E. Dipole Moments of Aliphatic and Aromatic Amines. Nature 168, 705–706 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168705b0

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