Phase-transfer mechanism and nucleophilicity of halide ions in an aqueous–organic two-phase system

Abstract
Nucleophilic substitution by halide ions in n-octyl methanesulphonate catalysed by hexadecyltri-butylphosphonium halides in a water–chlorobenzene two-phase system occurs in the organic phase; the reactivity range (Cl:Br:I= 0·6:1·1:1) is largely determined by the specific solvation of the anion by a limited number of water molecules.

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