
%0 Journal Article
%A Bolton, PD 
%A Wilson, IR 
%T Hydrolysis of amides. I. The hydrolysis of acetamide and chloroacetamide in dilute acid
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1965/06/01
%V 18
%N 6
%P 795-800
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9650795
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9650795 
%X Kinetic studies of the hydrolysis of acetamide in dilute acidic solution are reported. These reveal the presence of systematic errors in some previous work on this compound. A consistent treatment is given, leading to values of the energy and entropy of activation (at 75°) of 19.8 kcal and -17.8 e.u. and satisfactory correlation of most previous results.   Similar defects are present in recent work on chloroacetamide hydrolysis and the same approach is used in a reinterpretation. 
