Jakob Meisenheimer
= Jakob Meisenheimer
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<Jakob Meisenheimer> investigated reactions of aromatic nitro compounds, including the chemistry now associated with the <Meisenheimer complex>. Such a complex is a nonaromatic addition product in which a nucleophile has added to an electron-poor aromatic system.
Electron-withdrawing substituents can stabilize the resulting anionic framework. This makes the intermediate useful for understanding an addition-elimination pathway of <nucleophilic aromatic substitution>.https://doi.org/10.1002/jlac.19023230205[Ueber Reactionen aromatischer Nitrokörper, 1902, pages 205–246]{ref}