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Kiran Kelkar

Comparing Rate of Hydrolysis of Acyl halides

Diana Smith  Follow

The high reactivity of acyl chlorides towards nucleophilic attack is due to the highly polarised situation of the carbon-oxygen/chlorine bonds i.e.

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As you have mentioned due to the phenyl ring being planar, the steric hindrance does not overpower the polarising thing.

Now on comparing the reactions -NO$_2$ group's -M effect will be the most successful to make the carbon-oxygen/chlorine bonds more polar as compared to methyl's +I effect.

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Douglas Sucy  Follow
I dont have access to the whole pdfMore
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Guy Clentsmith  Follow
Yes , seems rightMore
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J.W  Follow
@DivyanshVerma It does lol. Check Table I and II on page 4More
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Erma Stewart  Follow
I disagree. More
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John Flavin  Follow
@RobinSingh the paper is not explicitly showing any comparison between p-nitro benzoyl chloride and acetyl chloride. It does talks about ethyl p-nitrobenzoate which is a different compound.More
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