Kinetic medium effects. II. Hydrolysis of esters in electrolyte solutions

Abstract

Rate constants have been measured for the acid-catalysed hydrolyses of t-butyl acetate and methyl chloroacetate in various aqueous electrolyte solutions; the activity coefficients of the esters in these electrolyte solutions have also been measured. The results are used to test a recently proposed method of determining transition state hydration numbers for reactions in aqueous media.