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the u complexes, present as metastable intermediates.7~8 It is clearly important to delineate the conditions under which oxygen or carbon attack may be expected in the reaction of aryloxide ions with the nitroaromatic series. Acknowledgments. The award by the National Research Council of Canada of a scholarship to J. G. K . W. is gratefully acknowledged. (8) (a) E. Buncel, A. R. Norris, and I
