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IN my presidential address1 to the Chemical Society in 1941 I discussed the circumstances of the transformation of hydrazobenzene into benzidine, and arrived at the conclusion that the diphenyl link is produced in an essentially homopolar fashion as the result of a summation of electromeric displacements.
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ROBINSON, R. Mechanism of the Arylhydroxylamine and Semidine Rearrangements. Nature 169, 705–706 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169705a0
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