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SIR CYRIL HINSHELWOOD has recently1 revived the old Noyes—Lowry suggestion that bromine may sometimes react in water after complete dissociation, Br2 ⇌ Br- + Br+, and not merely as an inductively polarized molecule, while Weiss2 has tentatively suggested that the simple bromine cation may exist in acid solutions of hypobromous acid: HOBr + H+ ⇌ Br+ + H2O. Direct experimental support for the latter suggestion has not as yet been put forward.
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Hinshelwood, C. N., J. Chem. Soc., 696 (1947).
Weiss, J., Chemical Society, Ann. Reports, 44, 79 (1947).
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DERBYSHIRE, D., WATERS, W. The Bromine Cation, Br+, and its Reactions. Nature 164, 446–447 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164446a0
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