• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.1268-1272
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• 2011

The specific rates of solvolysis of phenyl fluorothionoformate (PhOCSF, 1) have been determined in 22 pure and binary solvents at $10.0^{\circ}C$. The extended Grunwald-Winstein equation has been applied to the specific rates of solvolysis of 1 over the full range of solvents. The sensitivities (l = $1.32{\pm}0.13$ and m = $0.39{\pm}0.08$) toward the changes in solvent nucleophilicity and solvent ionizing power, and the $k_F/k_{Cl}$ values are similar to those previously observed for solvolyses of acyl haloformate esters, consistent with the addition step of an additionelimination pathway being rate-determining. The large negative values for the entropies of activation are consistent with the bimolecular nature of the proposed rate-determining step. The results are compared with those reported earlier for phenyl chloroformate and chlorothionoformate esters and mechanistic conclusions are drawn.