A Comparative Study of the Cosolvent Effect in tert-Butyl Alcohol-Water Solutions: The Solvolyses of Adamantyl Bromide and Cyclohexyl Bromide

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00409a037

The remarkable range of activation parameters for the solvolysis of 1-adamantyl bromide and cyclohexyl bromide can be accounted for in terms of the relative apparent molal properties of the tert-butyl alcohol and, in the case of cyclohexyl bromide, also the partial molal properties of water.The activation parameters can be corrected to constant quantities (by introducing heats and entropy effects defined by φL₂ and φS₂^e).These corrections are in agreement with the "competitive solvation theory" of Nagy.