Abstract α-Methylstyrene and nine ortho-substituted analogs have been synthesized and the kinetics of their acid-catalyzed hydration in aqueous solutions of sulfuric acid at 25 C have been investigated. The kinetic acidity function HS has been constructed from the dependence of the observed rate constants k obs on the sulfuric acid concentration. The catalytic rate constants of the acid-catalyzed hydration k ortho have been calculated as ...
