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ATTENTION was first directed to the principles involved in explaining the differential reaction of two ‘identical’ groups in a single molecule by Ogston1, and they have been further discussed and generalized by Wilcox2, Schwartz and Carter3 and most recently by Hirschmann4. Since a recent review5 seems to hold that the views of these authors (in particular those of Ogston and of Schwartz and Carter) are in some ways contradictory, and since Hirschmann's excellent article appears to be too little known, a brief re-statement is attempted. Ogston's and Schwartz and Carter's views are in fact complementary (as Hirschmann shows), each being explicit about an aspect of the matter which the other takes for granted.
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OGSTON, A. Conditions for Differential Reaction of ‘Identical’ Chemical Groups. Nature 181, 1462 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811462a0
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