Kinetics and Mechanism of Monomolecular Heterolysis of Commercial Organohalogen Compounds: XL. Nature of Salt Effects in Dehydrobromination of 3-Bromocyclohexene in γ-Butyrolactone. Role of Solvation Effects of Dipolar Aprotic Solvents

The influence of neutral salts on the rate of heterolysis of 3-bromocyclohexene at 31°C in γ-butyrolactone was studied by the verdazyl method; ν = kC₆H₉Br], E1 mechanism. Additions of lithium picrate do not affect the reaction rate; those of LiClO₄ and Et₄NClO₄ increase it; and those of LiCl, Et₄NCl, and KNCS decelerate the reaction. The nature of salt and solvation effects in the heterolysis of 3-bromocyclohexene in γ-butyrolactone, MeCN, and PhNO₂ is discussed.__________Translated from Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii, Vol. 75, No. 6, 2005, pp. 937–944.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Ponomarev, Stambirskii, Dvorko.