Free Energy Relationships for Reactions of Substituted Benzhydrylium Ions: From Enthalpy over Entropy to Diffusion Control

J Ammer, C Nolte, H Mayr

Index: Duan, Xin-Hua; Mayr, Herbert Organic Letters, 2010 , vol. 12, # 10 p. 2238 - 2241

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Abstract

Second-order rate constants k 2 for the reactions of various donor-and acceptor-substituted benzhydrylium ions Ar2CH+ with π-nucleophiles in CH2Cl2 were determined by laser flash irradiation of benzhydryl triarylphosphonium salts Ar2CH-PAr3+ X–in the presence of a