A cautionary comment on a recent communication entitled “A measure of charge transfer (ϱ) versus a measure of bond tightness (ϱij) in the transition state”

JP King, S Skonieczny

Index: King, J. F.; Skonieczny, S. Tetrahedron Letters, 1987 , vol. 28, # 42 p. 5001 - 5004

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Abstract We present evidence that the reaction of anilines with ArCH 2 SO 2 Cl and ArCH 2 SO 2 F goes mainly via the sulfene (ArCH SO 2) and is not a simple nucleophilic displacement at sulfur, as was assumed in the above paper by I. Lee and RK Kang ( ...