intermediates or transition states. For certain nucleophiles, solvolysis reactions are classified. Solvolysis involving water is called hydrolysis. Related terms...

substitution reactions at secondary carbons: Many reactions studied are solvolysis reactions where a solvent molecule (often an alcohol) is the nucleophile...

same uniform SN1-like mechanism. The solvolysis of several cyclopentyl and steroidal esters show that large solvolysis rates and differences between epimers...

Young, D. J. Cram (1951). "The Correlation of Solvolysis Rates and the Classification of Solvolysis Reactions Into Mechanistic Categories". Journal...

VX with concentrated aqueous sodium hydroxide results in two competing solvolysis reactions: cleavage of either the P–O or P–S esters. Although the P–S...

also act as nucleophiles, and the process is known as solvolysis. The Y scale correlates solvolysis reaction rates of any solvent (k) with that of a standard...

Polymer degradation Proteolysis Saponification Sol–gel polymerisation Solvolysis Thermal hydrolysis IUPAC, Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed....

have been generated in photochemical solvolysis reactions. The figure to the right depicts photochemical solvolysis of vinyl iodonium salt, through heterolytic...

7-norbornenyl tosylate. The elimination occurs 1011 times faster than the solvolysis of anti-7-norbornyl p-toluenesulfonate. Tosylates are also protecting...

This generally occurs in highly polar solvents through a process called solvolysis. The positively charged component then reacts with a nucleophile forming...