Rr. Rakhmatullin et al., Kinetics and mechanism of reaction of sodium arsenite with chloroacetic acid in aqueous alkalis, RUSS J G CH, 69(9), 1999, pp. 1389-1390
The Meyer reaction of sodium arsenite with chloroacetic acid in aqueous alk
alis occurs by the SN2 mechanism and is accompanied by concurrent alkaline
hydrolysis of chloroacetic acid; the rate constants and the activation ener
gies and entropies of these reactions were determined.