SummaryThree kinds of polar substituent effects are observable in the solvolyses of 1-Rsubstituted 3-bromoadamantanes P I ) . This follows from the relationship between products, rate constants k in 80% ethanol, and the inductive substituent constants OF of the substituent R. Alkyl groups and electron-attracting substituents at C (1) control the rate by their inductive effects alone, since logk correlates closely with OF. However, rates are higher than predicted on the basis of the respective of values when conjugating (+ M)-substituents or electrofugal groups are attached to C(1). These exalted substituent effects are attributed to CC-hyperconjugative relay of positive charge from the cationic center at C(3) to the substituent at C(1). When the substituent is a strong electron donor ( e g 0-and s-), accelerated substitution gives way to heterolytic fragmentation, rates and products then being controlled by the frangomeric effect.Introduction. -In theory a y-substituent R can affect the rate of ionization of a tertiary alkyl halide I in three conceptually distinctive ways (Scheme 1): a) by its inductive effect which acts on the cationic center in the incipient ion pair 11; b) by a hyperconjugative effect which transfers positive charge from C ( a ) to C (7) (CC-hyperconjugation) and is superposed on the inductive effect as in 111, and c) by a frangomeric effect [l] which operates as in b) except that the positive charge generated at C(a) is completely transfered to an electrofugal fragment IV [2] with concomitant cleavage of the C@)-C(y) bond2). While reactions a) and b) lead to the substitution and elimination products typical of SN1 and E l mechanisms [4], process c) leads to olefin-forming fragmentation [ 2 ] [5].As in concerted fragmentation c), CC-hyperconjugation b) should become observable when R represents an electron donor. In fact the transition states are