Abstract
The catalytic hydrolysis of ethyl, butyl and isobutyl acetates in aqueous solution and aqueous organic mixtures in presence of cation exchange resin in the hydrogen form was studied. The acid resin, however, behaved in aqueous organic mixtures in the same way as such resins do in pure water. The order of the chemical reaction in the heterogeneous catalysis by the resin was found to be the same as in the homogenous catalysis by a dissolved electrolyte. This was considered to indicate that the reaction mechanism is essentially the same in both cases. The overall rate was controlled by the chemical reaction of the ester at the catalytically active sites within the resin. The activation parameters were calculated for all the investigated reactions.
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