title: The alpha-Effect in Benzyl Transfers from Benzylphenylmethyl Sulfonium Salts to N-Methylbenzohydroxamate Anions.
abstract: The investigation of the occurrence of the alpha-effect in group transfers from phenyldialkyl sulfonium ions where one alkyl group is benzyl allows an assay of the effect of changing the nature of the C atom being transferred. The size of the alpha-effect responds to increasing electron demand, as methyl transfers do. Quantitative relationships between the size of the alpha-effect are established from both the nucleophilic side and the leaving group side of the S(N)2 transition state.
authors.affiliation: Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri 63501.
authors.forename: K. R.
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Fountain
authors.forename: Darlene B.
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Tad-Y
authors.forename: Timothy W.
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: Mikhail V.
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Golynskiy