Kinetics and mechanism of monomolecular heterolysis of commercial organohalogen compounds: XLIII. Solvent effect on activation parameters of dehydrochlorination of 3-chloro-3-methylbut-1-ene. Correlation analysis of solvation effects

The influence of temperature on the rate of dehydrochlorination of 3-chloro-3-methylbut-1-ene in 17 aprotic and 13 protic solvents, ν = kC₅H₉Cl], was studied by the verdazyl method. In aprotic solvents, the electrophilicity, ionizing power, and cohesion of solvents decrease ΔG ^≠ by increasing ΔS ^≠. The nucleophilicity and polarizability increase both ΔH ^≠ and ΔS ^≠ to equal extent and therefore do not affect ΔG ^≠. In protic solvents, the solvent nucleophilicity increases ΔH ^≠ to a greater extent than ΔS ^≠, and the overall effect of the nucleophilic solvation is small and negative.