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Associative and Dissociative Pathways in the Alkaline Hydrolysis of Aryl 2-Hydroxycinnamates
Cevasco, Giorgio,Thea, Sergio
, p. 70 - 73 (2007/10/02)
Aryl 2-hydroxycinnamate esters hydrolyze in alkaline solutions (20percent dioxane-water v/v) obeying the rate law kobs = ka + kb/(1 + aH/Ka), where Ka is the ionization constant of the hydroxy group of the ester and kb is the second-order rate constant for the attack of hydroxide ion on the ionized ester.Kinetic data and activation parameters for the hydrolysis of the 2,4-dinitrophenyl ester show that the mechanism giving rise to the ka term cannot be a simple BAc2 type process and suggest the occurrence of a E1cB mechanism involving an "extended" o-oxoketene intermediate.The Broensted plot of the apparent second-order rate constante (kaKa/kw) versus the pK of the leaving group indicates that the reaction mechanism changes from E1cB to BAc2 for esters with leaving groups having pK higher than about 6.
