Nucleophilic Reactivities of Thiophenolates.

The nucleophilic reactivities of substituted thiophenolates were determined by following the kinetics of their reactions with a series of quinone methides (reference electrophiles) in DMSO at 20 °C. The experimentally determined second-order rate constants were analyzed according to the Mayr-Patz equation log k = sN(N + E) to derive the nucleophile-specific reactivity parameters N and sN for ten thiophenolate ions.