303. Physicochemical studies of some cyclic carbonates. Part II. The rates of hydrolysis of ethylene carbonate and of propylene carbonate
303. Physicochemical studies of some cyclic carbonates. Part II. The rates of hydrolysis of ethylene carbonate and of propylene carbonate
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303.一些环状碳酸酯的物理化学研究。
DOI:
10.1039/jr9590001576
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发表时间:
1959
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W. Lee
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作者:
R. Kempa;W. Lee
The kinetics of the hydrolyses of ethylene carbonate and propylene (ie, methylethylene) carbonate, in alkaline aqueous media, at 25” have been studied; rate constants, ho~, are 48.8 and 17.8 1. mole-l min.-l, respectively. Conductimetry was used to study the initial rates of the water-catalysed hydrolyses of these two compounds; at 25O, the initial rate constants KH, O were 14.2 x and 7.1 x min.-l, respectively. At 18O, k=, o for ethylene carbonate was 5-7 x 10-rnin.-l, leading to an activation energy for its initial hydrolysis of 22.5 kcal./mole.ETHYLENE CARBONATE for use in cryoscopy was reported to be non-hygroscopic, and no precautions were taken to prevent the absorption of moisture from the air. l We have found, however, that the conductivity of samples of carefully purified cyclic carbonates, left in stoppered conductivity cells in a thermostat, progressively increases. The effect appeared to be due to hydrolysis; as it is intended to carry out reactions in water, and in aqueous solutions, in order to study complex-formation of metal ions by cyclic carbonates, it seemed of interest to obtain rates of hydrolysis of ethylene carbonate and of propylene carbonate, in aqueous alkaline solution and in water. Alkaline Hydrolysis.-Alkaline hydrolyses were followed by titration, as in Skrabal and Baltadschiewa’s studies of open-chain esters2 The rates were so much greater than those for hydrolysis by water molecules that we may write for the rate equation in alkaline solution: