
%0 Journal Article
%A Broxton, TJ 
%A Duddy, NW 
%T Substituent effects on the basic methanolysis of a series of substituted N-Methyl-p-toluanilides
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1980/04/01
%V 33
%N 4
%P 903-906
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9800903
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9800903 
%X The rate of basic methanolysis of a series of substituted N-methyl-p- toluanilides (1) has been measured at 373 K. A Hammett plot of these results resulted in a straight line (p 3.1, r 0.998) indicative of reaction by solvent-assisted bond breaking (mechanism B) throughout the series. The relevance of these results to previous results for the basic hydrolysis of N-methyl-p-toluanilides (I) and basic methanolysis of N-methylbenzanilides (2) is discussed. 
