Abstract
Trisacetylacetonatochromium(III) undergoes acid-catalysed aquation to form a bisacetylacetonato-derivative, the rate of aquation showing linear dependence on the Hammett acidity function H0. Oxygen-18 exchange between solvent water and free acetylacetone proceeds rapidly in H-perchloric acid, but exchange with acetylacetone co-ordinated to chromium(III) is slow compared with aquation in solutions of the same acidity. It is inferred that “one-ended dissociation” as found in trisoxalato-complexes does not occur.

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