Salts hydrolysis reactions

Related ammonium salts derived from amines, such as [CH3NH3]C1, [(CH3)2NH2]C1, and [(CH3)3NH]C1, also give acidic solutions because they too have cations with at least one dissociable proton. The pH of a solution that contains an acidic cation can be calculated by the standard procedure outlined in Figure 15.7. For a 0.10 M NH4C1 solution, the pH is 5.12. Although the reaction of a cation or anion of a salt with water to produce H30+ or OH - ions is sometimes called a salt hydrolysis reaction, there is no fundamental difference between a salt hydrolysis reaction and any other Bronsted-Lowry acid-base reaction. 

For more practice writing equations for salt hydrolysis reactions, go to Supplemental Practice Problems in Appendix A. 

Write equations for the salt hydrolysis reactions that occur when the following salts are dissolved in water. Classify each solution as acidic, basic, or neutral. 

Thinking Critically When a salt is dissolved in water, how can you predict whether or not a salt hydrolysis reaction occurs ... 

Even if his direct contribution on Chemical Kinetics was limited it was a field that interested him for all his academic career. His first publications regarded the verification of the Law of Mass Action on different salts hydrolysis reactions (Ostwald, 1879-1884). He later rediscovered also the work of Wilhelmy on the inversion of sugar supposing erroneously that the adds do not react directly but act as accelerator (Ostwald, 1884). That erroneous interpretation was the origin of his interest on catalytic phenomena that we will treat briefly being only partially related at the scope of the chapter. 

The magnesium ion having a high hydration energy (Table 6.2) also shows hydrolysis but to a lesser extent (than either Be or AF ). The chloride forms several hydrates which decompose on heating to give a basic salt, a reaction most simply represented as (cf. p. 45) ... 

The amines are comparatively weak bases, so that a certain amount of free amine will be produced by salt hydrolysis unless an excess of acid is present. The reaction mixture must be kept very cold during the process (which is exothermic in character), otherwise the diazonium salt may be partially converted into the corresponding hydroxy compound ... 

Hydrolysis (Section 20 4) Acyl chlorides react with water to yield carboxylic acids In base the acid is converted to its carbox ylate salt The reaction has little prepara tive value because the acyl chloride is nearly always prepared from the carboxyl ic acid rather than vice versa... 

In aqueous solution, OF2 oxidizes HCl, HBr, and HI (and thek salts), Hberating the free halogens. Oxygen difluoride reacts slowly with water and a dilute aqueous base to form oxygen and fluorine. The rate of this hydrolysis reaction has been determined (23). 

Aqueous sulfamic acid solutions are quite stable at room temperature. At higher temperatures, however, acidic solutions and the ammonium salt hydroly2e to sulfates. Rates increase rapidly with temperature elevation, lower pH, and increased concentrations. These hydrolysis reactions are exothermic. Concentrated solutions heated in closed containers or in vessels having adequate venting can generate sufficient internal pressure to cause container mpture. An ammonium sulfamate, 60 wt % aqueous solution exhibits mnaway hydrolysis when heated to 200°C at pH 5 or to 130°C at pH 2. The danger is minimised in a weU-vented container, however, because the 60 wt % solution boils at 107°C (8,10). Hydrolysis reactions are ... 

Hydrolysis (47) of dicyandiamide occurs easily at elevated temperatures ia the presence of an equivalent of mineral acid to yield guanylurea salts. This reaction is quantitative and can be used for the determination of dicyandiamide (48). 

Carbides, which are binary compounds containing anionic carbon, occur as covalent and as salt-like compounds. The salt-like carbides are water-reactive and, upon hydrolysis, yield flammable hydrocarbons. Typical hydrolysis reactions include ... 

An interesting kinetic study was carried out under pseudo-first-order conditions for the base hydrolysis of the three isomeric N-methyl-cyanopyridinium salts, a reaction that leads partly to CN replacement and partly to the formation of a carboxamido derivative. ... 

Solvents influence the hydrogenation of oximes in much the same way as they do hydrogenation of nitriles. Acidic solvents prevent the formation of secondary amines through salt formation with the initially formed primary amine. A variety of acids have been used for this purpose (66 ), but acids cannot always be used interchangeably (43). Primary amines can be trapped also as amides by use of an anhydride solvent (2,/5,57). Ammonia prevents secondary amine formation through competition of ammonia with the primary amine in reaction with the intermediate imine. Unless the ammonia is anhydrous hydrolysis reactions may also occur. 

Acid anhydride-diol reaction, 65 Acid anhydride-epoxy reaction, 85 Acid binders, 155, 157 Acid catalysis, of PET, 548-549 Acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of nylon-6, 567-568 of nylon-6,6, 568 Acid chloride, poly(p-benzamide) synthesis from, 188-189 Acid chloride-alcohol reaction, 75-77 Acid chloride-alkali metal diphenol salt interfacial reactions, 77 Acid chloride polymerization, of polyamides, 155-157 Acid chloride-terminated polyesters, reaction with hydroxy-terminated polyethers, 89 Acid-etch tests, 245 Acid number, 94 Acidolysis, 74 of nylon-6,6, 568... 

A formal definition of salt hydrolysis can follow from the description outlined above. Salt hydrolysis may be defined as a reaction in which the anion or the cation of a salt reacts with the solvent water to produce acidity or alkalinity. Evidently, it is the nature of the anion or the cation constituting the salt which will determine whether the solution produced as a result of hydrolysis will be acidic or alkaline. If the matter is examined from these points of view, the following three different cases can arise. 

Except for the last, these reactions are used in titrimetric neutralization analysis.) Reactions (II) to (IV) can also proceed in the opposite direction. This will be demonstrated on the well-known example of salt hydrolysis. 

The hydrolysis reaction is very slow at ambient temperatures and is accelerated by boiling chromium salt solutions (5). The hydrolysis reaction is characterized by the transformation of the deep blue colored CrtHgOJg to green colored hydrolyzed olates. Another indication is tnatan aged or boiled Cr(III) salt solution has a higher neutralization equivalent than a fresh one due to the hydrolytically produced protons. One way to establish hydrolytic equilibria quickly is to add appropriate equivalents of bases such as NaOH to Cr(III) salt solutions. 

It also follows that protonation of the triazine ring makes it more susceptible to attack by nucleophilic reagents unless the reagent itself is also protonated. If the triazine ring remains unprotonated when a nucleophilic base, such as an alkylamine, is present as its acid salt the reaction is slower, of course. Cyanuric chloride itself is a very weak base that becomes protonated only under strongly acidic conditions. Thus step 1 in Scheme 11.2 can be carried out in aqueous solution even at pH 2 without risk of undesirable hydrolysis of cyanuric chloride, water being an extremely weak nucleophile. 

The basic idea was to randomly acylate polyallylamine (MW = 50,000-65,000) all at once with eight different activated carboxylic acids. The relative amounts of acids used in the process was defined experimentally. Since the positions of attack could not be controlled, a huge family of diverse polymers (4) was formed. In separate runs the mixtures were treated with varying amounts of transition metal salts and tested in the hydrolysis reaction (1) —> (2) (Equation (1). The best catalyst performance was achieved in a particular case involving Fe3+, resulting in a rate acceleration of 1.5 x 105. The weakness of this otherwise brilliant approach has to do with the fact that the optimal system is composed of many different Fe3+ complexes, and that deconvolution and therefore identification of the actual catalyst is not possible. A similar method has been described in other types of reaction.30,31... 

In related work a library of 1,458 peptide ligands and various metal salts was tested in hydrolysis reactions of (p-nitrophenyl)phosphates.35 An active substructure composed of polymer-bound histidine in combination with Eu3+ was identified by further dissecting the original hit structure. It needs to be pointed out that catalytically active polymer beads can also be tested for catalytic activity using IR-thermography. In a seminal paper this was demonstrated using 7,000 encoded polymer beads prepared by split-and-pool methods, specifically in the metal-free acylation of alcohols.36... 

Because HI is relatively unstable, this method is not appropriate for producing the compound. Instead, as mentioned earlier, HI is better prepared by hydrolysis reactions. If a halide salt is treated with an acid that is an oxidizing agent, a redox reaction occurs in which I2 is produced. 

Hydrolysis of amino-alkylamino-l,2,5-thiadiazole 1-oxides 55 with concentrated aqueous HC1 gave the amidines 56 (Equation 4) <2001JME1231>. The hydrolysis reactions of 2-alkyl-4-amino-2,3-dihydro-l, 2,5-thiadiazol-3-one 1,1-dioxides 57 in the range 24-73 °C in buffered aqueous solutions gave the corresponding 2-amino-2-[(iV-alkyl-substituted-sulfamoyl)imino]acetic acid salts 58 (Equation 5) <1998JP0489>. 

A fat or an oil is produced when three long-chain carboxylic acids, called fatty acids, bond with a glycerol unit to form three ester bonds. (Note that the three fatty acids are not always identical.) A hydrolysis reaction can split these three ester bonds to produce glycerol and a combination of the salts of fatty acids, better known as soap. 

The kinetics of the hydrolysis reactions of 4-amino-2-phenethyl- (354 R = PhCH2CH2) and 4-amino-2-cyclohexyl-2,3-dihydro-3-oxo-l,2,5-thiadiazole 1,1-dioxide (354 R = CeHii) have been investigated in the pH range 1-10 at 24-73 °C. The products are the corresponding new compounds 2-anuno-2-[(A -substituted-sulfamoyl)imino]acetic acid salts (355 R = PhCH2CH2 or CeHn) which hydrolyse further, in a slow reaction, to the sulfamide and oxalic acid derivatives. ... 

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