Ethyl acetate is resistant to attack by nitrobenzenesulfonyl peroxides and is a suitable solvent for sulfonoxylations. In the thermal decomposition of o-and m-nitrobenzenesulfonyl peroxides in alkylbenzenes there are no products resulting from a side-chain hydrogen abstraction characteristic of a homolytic reaction. Competitive 0-and m- nitrophenylsulfonoxylations gave, respectively, for le. &^: benzene, 1.0; toluene, 13.3, 19.0 ...