Substituent Effects in Organic Polarography

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Petr Zuman

   Pages 1-21

3. General Equation for the Relation Between the Polarographic Half-Wave Potential and Substituent Effects

   • Petr Zuman

   Pages 23-41

4. Benzene Derivatives

   • Petr Zuman

   Pages 43-129

5. Monocyclic Heterocyclic Compounds

   • Petr Zuman

   Pages 131-168

6. Reaction Series in which the Electroactive Group is Directly Attached to an Alkyl or Aryl Substituent

   • Petr Zuman

   Pages 169-218

7. Effects of Substituents in Condensed Polycyclic Hydrocarbons

   • Petr Zuman

   Pages 219-245

8. Effects of Substituents in Polycyclic Heterocyclic Compounds

   • Petr Zuman

   Pages 247-272

9. Effects of Substituents in Quinonoid Compounds

   • Petr Zuman

   Pages 273-308

10. Alicyclic Systems

    • Petr Zuman

    Pages 309-366

11. Back Matter

    Pages 367-384

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During the forty years which have passed since Masuzo Shikata published his paper on the reduction of nitrobenzene at a dropping mercury electrode, the number of polarographic studies of organic compounds in the literature has risen to several thousands. The ever­ increasing amount of experimental data was in need of some unified method of classification which would yield unambiguous and possibly complete information on the polarographic behavior of organic substances. Dr. Zuman's book presents an original attempt to meet this need by providing a system based on correlations between the polaro­ graphic half-wave potentials of organic depolarizers and their Hammett constants. I consider this a very happy conception, for, more than any other book yet written, it brings polarography nearer to the organic chemist; and it will undoubtedly convince him that, in its application to his subject, the method is more than a mere analytical tool. The author hardly needs any introduction. During many years of research in the field of organic polarography, he has published numerous papers on a variety of problems; his latest interest is the application of the Hammett-Taft equation to polarographic measure­ ments, in which he has done pioneering work. It remains for me to hope that this book, which opens up new prospects for the fruitful application of polarography, may inspire vii viii Foreword some reader with useful ideas in his search for new paths in his research problems.

• Polarizer
• Steric effect
• aromatic
• behavior
• classification
• cyclic compound
• depolarizer
• experiment
• heterocyclic compound
• information
• mercury
• paper
• system

• Heyrovský Institute of Polarography, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia

  Petr Zuman

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