Application of the kinetic isotope effect of tritium to the investigation of the mechanism of hydrogen substitution and transfer reactions

CONTENTS
I. Introduction 123
II. Theory of the kinetic isotope effect 124
III. Kinetic isotope effect of tritium in electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions and in the acid exchange of hydrogen 125
IV. Kinetic isotope effect of tritium in metallation and hydrogen exchange with a base 128
V. Kinetic isotope effect of tritium in hydrogen transfer reactions 129
VI. Application of the kinetic isotope effect of tritium to the investigation of the mechanism of some other reactions 130