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With the starting reagents of benzyl chloride and a solvent (water), what is the rate limiting step in the solvolysis reactions:
a. Solubility of the alkyl halide
b. Formation of the carbocation
c. Reaction of the carbocation with water
d. Removal of a proton from alkyloxonium ion

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This solution looks at the properties of an SN1 reaction mechanism and what determines the rate limiting step in the reaction of benzyl chloride and a solvent.

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