Chemical shift data for the formyl proton in some 30 aromatic aldehydes are reported. It was found that 111eta-and para-substituted benzaldehydes exhibited this peal; in the range 9.85-10.20 6, while ortho-substituted compounds appear a t lower held, 10.20-10.50 6 ; the former shifts show an approximate correlation with the Hammett sig-nla parameter. Evidence for steric inhibition of resonance is presented for some ortho-substituted compounds and some interesting solvent effects are discussed.
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