Oxygen exchange as a function of racemization in 1-phenyl-1-ethanol. Kinetic evidence for ion-dipole pair intermediates

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00165a047

The rate constants for three competing processes at the chiral center in the acid-catalyzed racemization of both (R)- and (S)-1-phenyl-1-ethanol in 50% ¹⁸O-enriched water at 64.5 °C have been determined by chiral HPLC and GC/MS methods: oxygen