Acid/base-catalyzed ester hydrolysis in near-critical water
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 20,p. 2063-2064
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a906401j
Abstract
Hydrolyses of substituted benzoic acid esters in near-critical water (250–300 °C) show autocatalytic kinetic behavior and surprisingly give the same rate constant regardless of substituent, suggesting that an acid-catalyzed mechanism predominates under our reaction conditions.Keywords
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