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A RELATIONSHIP can be found by plotting the potential barrier to internal rotation of ethyl halides against the ionization energy of the substituent halogen atom (Fig. 1). The results are given in Table 1.
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LIELMEZS, J., MORGAN, J. Relation between Internal Rotational Barrier and Ionization Energy of Substituent Atoms in Ethyl Halides. Nature 202, 1106–1107 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2021106b0
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