Hydrolysis, acid, relative rates

Acetolysis provides a complementary technique to partial acid hydrolysis. The relative rates of cleavage of glycosidic linkages are quite different from those found with acids (Guthrie and McCarthy, 1967 Lindberg et al., 1975). 

As with hydrolysis, the relative rates of reaction of different species depend on steric effects and the charge on the transition state. Thus, for acid hydrolysis with a positively charged transition state stabilized by electron-donating groups, (ROjjSiOH condenses faster than (RO)2Si(OH)2, which condenses faster than (RO)Si(OH)3, etc. 

Neither formic acid nor water is very nucleophilic and so 8 2 substitution is suppressed The relative rates of hydrolysis of a group of alkyl bromides under these conditions are presented m Table 8 5... 

Relative hydrolysis and condensation rate studies of multifunctional silanes, Si(OR), under acidic and basic catalysis showed that the first (OR) group hydroly2es much more readily than subsequent groups (195). Sdanol—sdanol condensation is much slower than sdanol—alkoxysilane condensation, even if the alkoxysilane is monofunctional, thus suggesting that chain extension is insignificant ia the presence of a cross-linker (196—199). 

Hydrolysis to Glycols. Ethylene chlorohydrin and propylene chlorohydrin may be hydrolyzed ia the presence of such bases as alkaU metal bicarbonates sodium hydroxide, and sodium carbonate (31—33). In water at 97°C, l-chloro-2-propanol forms acid, acetone, and propylene glycol [57-55-6] simultaneously the kinetics of production are first order ia each case, and the specific rate constants are nearly equal. The relative rates of solvolysis of... 

The relative rate of acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of some dioxolanes [dioxolane aq. HCl (1 1)] are 2,2-dimethyldioxolane 2-methyldioxolane dioxolane, 50,000 5000 1. ... 

Sulfobenzyl esters were prepared (cesium salt or dicyclohexylammonium salt, Na03SC6H4CH2Br, DMF, 37-95% yield) from A -protected amino acids. They are cleaved by hydrogenolysis (H2/Pd), or hydrolysis (NaOH, dioxane/water). Treatment with ammonia-or hydrazine results in formation of the amide or hydrazide. The ester is stable to 2 M HBr/AcOH and to CF3SO3H in CF3CO2H. The relative rates of hydrolysis and hydrazinolysis for different esters are as follows ... 

Fig. 10. Plots of the relative rate constants of the hydrolysis of dextrin vs. the mole ratio of vinylalcohol unit to vinylsulfonic acid unit, o PVS VA, Polyvinylalcohol + HPVS (Ref.

Although the reaction scheme shows a complete hydrolysis before condensation begins, this is likely not correct as stated earlier. The relative rates and extents of these two reactions will particularly depend on the amount of water added and the acidity of the system (10,11). The high functionality of the triethoxysilane endcapped PTMO oligomer should enhance the incorporation of PTMO molecules into the TEOS network. It was also assumed that the reactivities would be the same between silanol groups from silicic acid and endcapped PTMO. Therefore, no preferential condensation was expected and the deciding factors for which type of condensation (self- or co-) took place would be the diffusivities and local concentrations. 

Kindler [Twi., 450( 1), 1926] has studied the alkaline hydrolysis of the ethyl esters of a number of substituted benzoic acids. The m-nitro compound was found to have a rate constant 63.5 times as fast as the unsubstituted compound. What relative rate constant is predicted for the reaction of p-methoxybenzoate by the Hammett equation The value based on experimental results is 0.214. 

The reaction of cycloheptaamylose with diaryl carbonates and with diaryl methylphosphonates provides a system in which a carboxylic acid derivative can be directly compared with a structurally analogous organo-phosphorus compound (Brass and Bender, 1972). The alkaline hydrolysis of these materials proceeds in twro steps, each of which is associated with the appearance of one mole of phenol (Scheme Y). The relative rates of the two steps, however, are reversed. Whereas the alkaline hydrolysis of carbonate diesters proceeds with the release of two moles of phenol in a first-order process (kh > fca), the hydrolysis of methylphosphonate diesters proceeds with the release of only one mole of phenol to produce a relatively stable aryl methylphosphonate intermediate (fca > kb), In contrast, kinetically identical pathways are observed for the reaction of cycloheptaamylose with these different substrates—in both cases, two moles of phenol are released in a first-order process.3 Maximal catalytic rate constants for the appearance of phenol are presented in Table XI. Unlike the reaction of cycloheptaamylose with m- and with p-nitrophenyl methylphosphonate discussed earlier, the reaction of cycloheptaamylose with diaryl methylphosphonates... 

As a result of the inductive and hyperconjugative effects it is to be expected that tertiary carbonium ions will be more stable than secondary carbonium ions, which in turn will be more stable than primary ions. The stabilization of the corresponding transition states for ionization should be in the same order, since the transition state will somewhat resemble the ion. Thus the first order rate constant for the solvolysis of tert-buty bromide in alkaline 80% aqueous ethanol at 55° is about 4000 times that of isopropyl bromide, while for ethyl and methyl bromides the first order contribution to the hydrolysis rate is imperceptible against the contribution from the bimolecular hydrolysis.217 Formic acid is such a good ionizing solvent that even primary alkyl bromides hydrolyze at a rate nearly independent of water concentration. The relative rates at 100° are tertiary butyl, 108 isopropyl, 44.7 ethyl, 1.71 and methyl, 1.00.218>212 One a-phenyl substituent is about as effective in accelerating the ionization as two a-alkyl groups.212 Thus the reactions of benzyl compounds, like those of secondary alkyl compounds, are of borderline mechanism, while benzhydryl compounds react by the unimolecular ionization mechanism. 

In another recent study, the relative rates of hydrolysis of a series of orange N-methyl ] acid dyes of the 2-alkoxy-4-chloro-s-triazine type (7.10 R = methyl, ethyl or isopropyl)... 

There is no reason to believe that the conjugate base mechanism does not apply with the other metal ions studied. Complexes of Cr(III) undergo base hydrolysis, but generally rate constants are lower, often 10 —10 less than for the Co(III) analog, Table 4.10. The lower reactivity appears due to both lower acidity (A"i) and lower lability of the amido species (kf) in (4.49) (provided k i can be assumed to be relatively constant). The very unreactive Rh(III) complexes are as a result of the very low reactivity of the amido species. The complexes of Ru(III) most resemble those of Co(III) but, as with Rh(III), base hydrolyses invariably takes place with complete retention of configuration. ... 

These polycations can be further hydrolyzed or react with each other to give a large number of possible polycations. The olatlon reaction occurs without a change In solution acidity but does change the concentration of hydrolyzed species In solution. Dilution causes the reversal of reaction 2 (I.e., depolymerization) and the Introduction of new hydrolyzed species Into solution. The new species formed can then re-equilibrate through the hydrolysis reaction. The kinetics of aging depend on the relative rates of the olatlon and hydrolysis reactions. 

Feather and Harris64 demonstrated that the relative rates of acid hydrolysis of the glycosidic linkages in cellotriose (21) are k kb =... 

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