On the strain energy of 5-ring and 6-ring lactones
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 23,p. 1817-1819
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39890001817
Abstract
Values of the heats of combustion of γ-butyrolactone, γ-valerolactone, and δ-valerolactone have been determined; uniquely among alicyclic compounds, the strain energy of the 6-ring lactone is greater than that for the 5-ring lactones.Keywords
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