“…The following supporting information can be downloaded at: , Computational method, Tables of calculated absolute and relative energies, Pictures and Cartesian Coordinates of all optimized structures, IRCs from the TSs for the chlorination and solvolysis of 1a’ , physical and NMR data of aryl halides 2, 4, 5 and NMR of glycerol/KBr solvent system can be downloaded at: . References [ 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 ] are cited in the supplementary materials.…”