SOLVOLYSIS IN LIGHT AND HEAVY WATER: VI. THE ROLE OF INITIAL STATE STRUCTURE
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The solubility data in light and heavy water of Swain and Thornton and of Taft and coworkers are reinterpreted to show that they support primarily the initial state origin for the kinetic solvent isotope effect. Other recent data, including the effect for t-butyl and α-phenethyl fluorides, are also shown to be compatible with the same hypothesis.