This generally occurs in highly polar solvents through a process called solvolysis.

For certain nucleophiles, there are specific terms for the type of solvolysis reaction.

The thermodynamic concept of solubility does not apply straightforwardly to solvolysis.

However, Maitlis' work has demonstrated a solvolysis reaction of the hexafluorophosphate ion.

Neutral nucleophilic reactions with solvents such as alcohols and water are named solvolysis.

The term solubility is also used in some fields where the solute is altered by solvolysis.

The ion pair concept explains stereochemistry in solvolysis.

The optical activity of the reaction disappears at the same reaction rate as that of the solvolysis.

Schleyer also identified solvolysis mechanisms, including reactive intermediates.

Co-author of the Grunwald-Winstein equation concerning solvolysis rates.

In those cases where the solute is not recovered upon evaporation of the solvent, the process is referred to as solvolysis.

Instead, solvolysis by methanol occurs, which gives the undesired methyl propionate side-product.

It is sparingly soluble in water, with a tendency to undergo spontaneous solvolysis when dissolved into it.

Solvolysis occurs when a Carbon-X bond, with X representing a halogen, is broken.

The equation parameter, sensitivity factor of solvolysis, m describes the compound's ability to form the carbocation intermediate in certain solvent system.

In a related experiment both enantiomers 1 and 2 of the exo-brosylate on solvolysis give the same racemic reaction product (scheme 2).

Typical polar protic solvents include water and alcohols, which will also act as nucleophiles and the process is known as solvolysis.

The solvolysis reaction in acetic acid involved the formation of a carbocation as the chloride ion leaves the cyclic molecule.

Hydrazones are usually very stable toward hydrolysis or other solvolysis conditions, suggesting that they require rather vigorous reaction conditions to be ripped off from the products.

The m is a parameter of the compound measuring sensitivity of solvolysis rate to Y, the measure of ionizing power of the solvent.

For instance the unsaturated tosylate will react more quickly (10 times faster for aqueous solvolysis) with a nucleophile than the saturated tosylate.

Step-growth polymers like polyesters, polyamides and polycarbonates can be degraded by solvolysis and mainly hydrolysis to give lower molecular weight molecules.

Degradation can also occur as a result of the formation, and then breakage of double bonds, such as solvolysis in PVC(Peacock).

When the carbocation is the very reactive tertiary adamantane carbocation (as judged from diminished rate of solvolysis) this difference is only a factor of 10.

This reactive intermediate is implied in the solvolysis of the bicyclic chloride 9-deutero-9'-chlorobicyclo[6.1.0]-nonatriene 1 to the indene dihydroindenol 4.