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Abstract

Carbon-13 NMR spectra of twelve monosubstituted benzene derivatives were measured in deuterochloroform. Together with the literature data a set of 35 systematically chosen substituents was obtained on which some thirty correlation equations were tested. As anticipated only substituent chemical shifts (SCS) in the position 4 are controlled by inductive and resonance effects, and can be correlated by dual substituent parameters (DSP). For the other positions DSP were not successful and more sophisticated equations are not much telling. On the other hand, the direct relations between two series of SCS are usually more precise and simple to understand. It is concluded that SCS in benzene ring need not be controlled by too complex mechanism but simply by different factors than by inductive and resonance effects.