The neutral hydrolysis of methyl acetate — Part 1. Kinetic experiments

2009 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yih-Huang Hsieh ◽  
Noham Weinberg ◽  
Saul Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Acetic Acid ◽  
Hydrochloric Acid ◽  
Rate Constant ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Methyl Acetate ◽  
Acid Catalysis ◽  
Acid Product ◽  
Neutral Reaction ◽  
Uncatalyzed Reaction ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

The neutral hydrolysis of methyl acetate and catalysis of the reaction by the acetic acid product have been studied in the temperature range 90–110 °C. Extrapolated to 25 °C, the rate constants are 0.17 × 10−8 s–1 for the uncatalyzed reaction and 1.4 × 10−4 (mol/L)–1s–1 for the catalyzed reaction. The acid catalysis is specific not general: at 90 °C the rate constants for hydrochloric acid catalysis and catalysis by ionized acetic acid are the same as the rate constant, kH = 1.4 × 10−2 (mol/L)–1s–1, determined in the neutral reaction.

scholarly journals The neutral hydrolysis of methyl acetate — Part 2. Is there a tetrahedral intermediate?

2009 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Shi ◽  
Yih-huang Hsieh ◽  
Noham Weinberg ◽  
Saul Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Acetic Acid ◽  
Methyl Acetate ◽  
Acid Catalysis ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Acid Product ◽  
General Acid ◽  
One Step ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Step Mechanism ◽  
Tetrahedral Intermediates

A computational strategy that reproduces the experimental rates of hydration of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acetone, and cyclohexanone and the rates of acetic acid and 2-hydroxypyridine-catalyzed hydration of acetone has been extended to the results of the neutral hydrolysis of methyl acetate reported in Part 1. Calculations have been performed for one-step and two-step mechanisms, with cooperative assistance from one to three additional water molecules in the presence and absence of the acetic acid product. The calculations predict that, for the neutral reaction, a one-step mechanism will be favoured if tetrahedral intermediates have a short lifetime and do not interconvert prior to breakdown (case A), and a two-step mechanism will be operative if tetrahedral intermediates are allowed to interconvert prior to breakdown (case B). The experimental results are consistent with the predictions of case A. In the presence of acetic acid, case A predicts that the acid will contribute only 1.6% to the overall rate, a negligible acceleration over the noncatalytic process, and case B predicts general acid catalysis to be an order of magnitude greater than the experimental result. It is concluded that the neutral hydrolysis of methyl acetate is mainly a cooperative one-step process, and that general acid catalysis by the acetic acid product does not occur.

Stability of the Nerve Gas Antidote BIS (4-Hydroxyiminomethyl-1-Pyridinomethyl) Ether Dichloride (Toxogonin®)

1968 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 234-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inga Christenson
Keyword(s):  
Aqueous Solution ◽  
Hydrochloric Acid ◽  
Sodium Hydroxide ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Kinetics Of Hydrolysis ◽  
Dilute Aqueous Solution ◽  
Nerve Gas ◽  
Ph Range ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

The products and kinetics of hydrolysis of the nerve gas antidote bis(4-hydroxyiminomethyl - 1 - pyridinemethyl) ether dichloride (Toxogonin ®) have been investigated. A survey of these studies is given: The hydrolytic reactions were studied in the pH range 1 M hydrochloric acid to 1 M sodium hydroxide at 25, 45, 75 and 85° C. Rate constants were determined in dilute aqueous solution, generally with an initial Toxogonin concentration of 0.01 mg per ml. In addition, a report is given concerning two-year storage of 25 percent (w/v) Toxogonin solutions at pH 2.5, 3.0 and 3.5. The solutions were stored in glass or polypropylene ampuls at 5, 15, 25 and 45°C. At 5 and 15C° decomposition was negligible, at 25 and 45 °C average decomposition was 1.5 percent and 3.3 percent, respectively.

THE STERIC FACTOR IN THE HYDROLYSIS OF β-1,4′-OLIGOGLUCOSIDES BY MYROTHECIUM CELLULASE

1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
Activation Energy ◽  
Rate Constant ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Activation Energies ◽  
Enzymic Activity ◽  
Degree Of Polymerization ◽  
Steric Factor ◽  
Collision Theory ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

A comparison of the rate constants and activation energies for the hydrolysis of cellobiose, cellotriose, cellotetraose, and cellopentaose by Myrothecium cellulase showed that while the rate constant was increased by a factor of about 450 as the degree of polymerization (D.P.) of the substrate was increased from two to five, the activation energy remained at about 12,000 cal. The results are interpreted, in terms of classical collision theory, as indicating that the increase in rate constant with D.P. is determined by an increase in the steric factor with D.P. Addition of a β-linked sorbityl group to an oligoglucoside increased the rate constant; the increase was less than that from addition of an anhydroglucose unit and, relative to the latter, diminished as the D.P. of the chain undergoing addition was increased. Exposing the enzyme to conditions favoring thermal or surface denaturation caused varying losses in enzymic activity towards the four oligoglucosides; wherever the loss in activity towards one oligoglucoside differed substantially from the loss in activity towards any other oligoglucoside, the greater loss was shown towards the substrate of lower D.P. The results are discussed.

Synthesis and thermolysis rate constants of diastereomeric oxadiazoline sources of acetoxy(methoxy)carbene — Reaction of acetoxy(methoxy)carbene with isocyanates

2006 ◽  
Vol 84 (7) ◽  
pp. 927-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Sokol ◽  
John Warkentin
Keyword(s):  
Acetic Acid ◽  
Ethyl Acetate ◽  
Carbonyl Group ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Acid Catalysis ◽  
Major Product ◽  
Acetyl Group ◽  
Methyl Pyruvate ◽  
Acetyl Transfer ◽  
Cis And Trans

Oxidation of the methoxycarbonylhydrazone of p-methoxyacetophenone affords both the cis- and trans-2-acetoxy-2-methoxy-5-(p-methoxyphenyl)-5-methyl-Δ3-1,3,4-oxadiazolines (also known as corresponding 2,5-dihydro-1,3,4-oxadiazoles) as well as methyl 1-acetoxy-1-(p-methoxyphenylethyl)diazenecarboxylate. The three isomers were separated and identified by spectroscopic means. Methyl 1-acetoxy-1-(p-methoxyphenylethyl)diazenecarboxylate is the major product from oxidation in dichloromethane. Oxidation in acetic acid did not afford the oxadiazolines but gave the diazenecarboxylate and, in addition, 1-(p-methoxyphenyl)ethyl acetate. Attempts to isomerize the diazenecar boxylate to the oxadiazolines by acid catalysis were not successful. Thermolysis of the oxadiazolines at 50.4 °C occurred with approximately the same rate constant (ca. 3.6 × 10–5 s–1) to afford acetoxy(methoxy)carbene, which rearranges to methyl pyruvate by acetyl transfer. The carbene, which reacts with relatively unhindered isocyanates to transfer the methoxy carbonyl group to carbon and the acetyl group to nitrogen, can be considered an acyl anion equivalent in that reaction.Key words: acetoxy(methoxy)carbene, diazene, oxadiazoline, isocyanate, (acetylamino)oxoacetate.

scholarly journals SYNTHESIS OF 7-HYDROXY-2,8-DIMETHYL-4-OXO-3-PHENOXY-4H-6-CHROMENECARBALDEHYDE

2018 ◽  
pp. 54-57
Author(s):  
Т. Shokol ◽  
N. Gorbulenko ◽  
V. Khilya
Keyword(s):  
Acetic Acid ◽  
Hydrochloric Acid ◽  
Glacial Acetic Acid ◽  
Ortho Position ◽  
Subsequent Removal ◽  
Electrophilic Attack ◽  
Reaction Conditions ◽  
Duff Reaction ◽  
The Mannich Reaction ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

Ortho-hydroxyformylchromones are convenient syntones for the construction of linear and angular hetarenochromones. Usually, 7-hydroxy-6-formylchromones were synthesized by oxidation of natural linear furochromones: visnagin and kellin and their synthetic analogues. The Duff reaction, which is the formylation of phenols in the ortho-position by heating with hexamethylenetetramine followed by acidic hydrolysis of intermediate imine, was also used to convert 7-hydroxychromones into 7-hydroxy-6-formylchromones, but in this case there were some difficulties because of the passivity of position 6 in 7-hydroxychromones compared to position 8 to the electrophilic attack. Thus, for the preparation of 7-hydroxy-6-formylchromones, it is necessary to use 8-substituted derivatives and to provide formylation for a long time.A method for the synthesis of 7-hydroxy-6-formylchromones based on 8-substituted 7-hydroxy-6-dialkylaminomethylchromones and hexamethylenetetramine was developed using the Duff reaction conditions. This method was demonstrated on the synthesis of 7-hydroxy-2,8-dimethyl-4-oxo-3-phenoxy-4H-6-chromenecarbaldehyde from 6-dimethylaminomethyl-7-hydroxy-2,8-dimethyl-3-phenoxy-4H-4-chromenone and hexamethylenetetramine in glacial acetic acid at reflux. It should be noted that when carrying out this reaction under heating on a water bath with subsequent hydrochloric acid hydrolysis only Mannich basehydrochloride was isolated from the reaction mixture. The starting 6-dimethylaminomethyl-7-hydroxy-2,8-dimethyl-3-phenoxy-4H-4-chromenone was synthesized from 1-(2,4-dihydroxy-3-methylphenyl)-2-phenoxyethanone in three steps. Acylation of the latter with acetic anhydride in the presence of triethylamine followed by condensation afforded 2,8-dimethyl-4-оxо-3-phenoxy-4Н-7-chromenylаcetate. Subsequent removal of acetyl protection resulted in 7-hydroxy-2,8-dimethyl-3-phenoxy-4H-4-chromenone, which on introduction into the Mannich reaction with bisdimethylaminomethane in dioxane gave rise to the desired 6-dimethylaminomethyl derivative.

Solvent effect as a criterion of solvolysis mechanism. Solvolysis of 3-acyl-1,3-diphenyltriazenes

1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 2091-2103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oldřich Pytela ◽  
Petr Svoboda ◽  
Miroslav Večeřa
Keyword(s):  
Transition State ◽  
Solvent Effect ◽  
Mole Fraction ◽  
Rate Constant ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Proton Donor ◽  
Hydrolysis Rate ◽  
Solvent Mixtures ◽  
Solvent Dependence ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

Solvent dependence of hydrolysis rate constants of 3-acetyl-1,3-diphenyltriazene (I) and 3-(N-methylcarbamoyl)-1,3-diphenyltriazene (II) has been followed in the solvent mixtures ethanol-water, methanol-water, dioxane-water, and formamide-water within the mole fraction x = 0.0 to 0.5 at 25, 35 and 45 °C. A criterion has been suggested, based on sign of change of logarithm of the observed rate constant in dependence on change of the solvent composition, for evaluation of the reaction molecularity and, hence, participation of water in the hydrolysis mechanism. It has been found that water takes part as a proton donor in the transition state of hydrolysis of the substrates studied.

The hydrolysis of some N-benzoylamino acids in dilute mineral acid

1967 ◽  
Vol 45 (17) ◽  
pp. 1921-1924 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Capindale ◽  
H. S. Fan
Keyword(s):  
Carboxylic Acid ◽  
Hydrochloric Acid ◽  
Glutamic Acid ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Mineral Acid ◽  
Dilute Solution ◽  
Acid Catalyzed ◽  
Ph Range ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Derivatives Of

The behavior of N-benzoylaspartic acid and N-benzoylglutamic acid has been investigated at 100° in dilute solution in water and aqueous hydrochloric acid within the pH range 3.1–0.5. Some data are presented concerning the hydrolysis of the N-benzoyl derivatives of alanine, β-alanine, leucine, glycine, serine, and β-ethanolamine in water, 0.1 N hydrochloric acid, and 2 N hydrochloric acid. Benzoylglutamic acid undergoes a pH-independent conversion into pyrrolid-2-one-5-carboxylic acid, which then hydrolyses in mineral acid to glutamic acid; however, N-benzoylaspartic acid, under similar conditions, hydrolyses much more rapidly by a route which does not involve the corresponding lactam as an intermediate. In anhydrous alcohols the solvolysis of N-benzoylaspartic acid gives mixtures of aspartic acid and the β ester.First-order rate constants have been obtained for the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of pyrrolid-2-one-5-carboxylic acid (I) and azetidin-2-one-4-carboxylic acid (II) in water over this pH range.

THE STERIC FACTOR IN THE HYDROLYSIS OF β-1,4′-OLIGOGLUCOSIDES BY MYROTHECIUM CELLULASE

1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
Activation Energy ◽  
Rate Constant ◽  
Rate Constants ◽  
Activation Energies ◽  
Enzymic Activity ◽  
Degree Of Polymerization ◽  
Steric Factor ◽  
Collision Theory ◽  
Hydrolysis Of

A comparison of the rate constants and activation energies for the hydrolysis of cellobiose, cellotriose, cellotetraose, and cellopentaose by Myrothecium cellulase showed that while the rate constant was increased by a factor of about 450 as the degree of polymerization (D.P.) of the substrate was increased from two to five, the activation energy remained at about 12,000 cal. The results are interpreted, in terms of classical collision theory, as indicating that the increase in rate constant with D.P. is determined by an increase in the steric factor with D.P. Addition of a β-linked sorbityl group to an oligoglucoside increased the rate constant; the increase was less than that from addition of an anhydroglucose unit and, relative to the latter, diminished as the D.P. of the chain undergoing addition was increased. Exposing the enzyme to conditions favoring thermal or surface denaturation caused varying losses in enzymic activity towards the four oligoglucosides; wherever the loss in activity towards one oligoglucoside differed substantially from the loss in activity towards any other oligoglucoside, the greater loss was shown towards the substrate of lower D.P. The results are discussed.

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