CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, cilt.6, sa.2, ss.237-244, 2008 (SCI-Expanded)
The kinetics of the C-S coupling of arylmagnesium bromides with phenyl tosylate has been studied in THF: toluene at 90 degrees C. The reaction is first order in Grignard reagent and first order in phenyl tosylate. Kinetic data, Hammett relationship and activation parameters are consistent with a nucleophilic addition mechanism involving rate determining attack of carbanion to sulfonyl group followed by a fast phenoxide group leaving.