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In the cupric chloride-catalyzed oxygenation of isobutyraldehyde enamines and cyclohexanone enamines of various secondary amines, the amino substituent remarkably affects the reactivity and the relative rates correlate well with their 1st ionization potentials.
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Itoh et al. (1976) studied this question.
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