Solvolytic reactions chemicals used

These acid-catalyzed reactions occur at temperatures lower than those used in conventional liquefaction processes. Phenol induces acid-catalyzed solvolytic reactions at temperatures as low as 120°C. The liquefied products contain chemically bound phenolic groups, a portion of which can be recovered by cracking. 

The characteristic change of the r value in the solvolysis reaction of benzylic precursors and for the corresponding carbocations should provide important information concerning the solvolysis transition state. The r value, reflecting the TT-delocalization within the cationic species, appears to remain essentially the same in solution as in the gas phase, and the charge delocalization in the transition state of the solvolytic ionization should be close to that in the carbocation intermediate. Advanced ab initio molecular orbital calculations can be used to And the underlying relationship between quantum chemical quantities and experimental r values, and the relation between r values and theoretical indices provides a basis for the physical meaning of the r parameter (Nakata ei ai, 1996, 1998, 1999). 

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