Comments on the utility of aromatic ring parameters in the correlation analysis of solvolytic reactivities for benzylic substrates
Abstract
The inclusion of the recently proposed aromatic ring parameter I with solvent ionizing power YX in Grunwald–Winstein correlation analyses of benzylic reactivities has been found to have several deficiencies and to be less informative in the understanding of solvolytic mechanisms than the use of YBnX alone.