Theoretical substituent effects upon the acidity of the title compounds were investigated using STO‐3G basis sets augmented by diffuse functions for all oxygen atomic centers of the probe groups. The results are discussed in connection with the available gas‐phase data within a novel conception of attractive and repulsive substituent effects.
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Böhm et al. (1984) studied this question.