| Summary: | The specific rates of solvolysis of the benzylmethylphenylsulfonium ion (prepared as the trifluoromethanesulfonate salt) and five benzylic ring-substituted derivatives can be satisfactorily correlated using NT solvent nucleophilicity values. Addition of a secondary term, governed by the aromatic ring parameter (I), shows the sensitivities towards changes in this parameter to fall and those towards changes in NT to rise with increasing electron-withdrawing ability of the substituent. The Hammett ρ values with electron-withdrawing substituents (based on ρ+ values) vary from -0.9 in 95% acetone to -1.8 in 97% 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol. These Grunwald-Winstein and Hammett analyses are compared to those previously reported, with essentially the same solvents and substituents, for solvolyses of arylmethyl p-toluenesulfonates.
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