THE RESISTANCE TO HYDROLYSIS OF N,N-DIMETHYL-N-PHENYLAMMONIOMETHANESULFONATE AND THE IMPROBABILITY OF A RECENTLY-PROPOSED MECHANISM OF HYDROLYSIS OF ANILINOMETHANESULFONATES.

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)98829-4

The hydrolysis of PhN(1+)Me2CH2SO3(1-) (2) is so slow that a proposed mechanism of hydrolysis of PhNHCH2SO3(1-) Na(1+) involving S_N2 attack of H2O on PhNH2(1+)CH2SO3(1-) may be discounted.