Abstract
The trifluoroethoxide-catalyzed trifluoroethanolysis and the hydroxide-catalyzed hydrolysis of a series of phenyldimethylsilyl ethers were examined. A Bronsted plot of the logarithm of the second-order rate constant k TFE for reaction with trifluoroethanol against the pK LG is not linear. The nonlinear plot might be taken as evidence for a change in rate-determining step of a reaction that proceeds through a pentavalent intermediate. However, the Bronsted plot for the hydroxide-catalyzed hydrolysis, where all the leaving groups are of lower pK a than hydroxide, has an identical shape as the Bronsted plot for the trifluoroethanolysis reaction
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