Earlier work1-3 has established the mechanism of solvolysis of trisubstituted haloallenes in aqueous acetone and aqueous ethanol solutions as a unimolecular C-X bond heterolysis yielding the resonance-stabilized cation, 1. The solvolysis reaction of the haloallenes
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