The rates of capture of the 1-(4-methylthiophenyl)-2,2,2-trifluoroethyl carbocation by alkylamines in a desolvation-limited reaction decrease with increasing amine pKa, and are up to 200 times slower than diffusion-limited carbocation capture by azide.
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John P. Richard (1987) studied this question.