Received 1st March, 1946. Received 1st March, 1946. In a recent note,1 it was shown that the carbonyl bond length increased as the ionization potential of the non-bonding p~ electrons on the oxygen atom decreased, i.e. as the polarity of the bond increased. Increase of bond length usually means decrease of
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A. D. Walsh (1947) studied this question.