• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.30 no.10
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• pp.2351-2354
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• 2009

A series of N-arylsuccinanilic acids, N-arylsuccinimides, N-arylmaleanilic acids, and N-arylmaleimides was prepared and their NMR spectra were examined by correlating the $^1H\;and\;^{13}C$ chemical shift values with the corresponding Hammett $\sigma$ values. The carbonyl carbons of the amides show a normal correlation with $\sigma$ but those of the imides show an inverse correlation.