Hydrolysis of esters and ester-anions by a polymeric quaternary ammonium hydroxide

Abstract

Rates of hydrolysis of uncharged aliphatic esters with poly(vinylbenzyltriethylammonium hydroxide) do not differ greatly from those with sodium hydroxide, but for the monoethyl ester-anions of dicarboxylic acids the rates with the polymer are greater than those with sodium hydroxide by factors of 2–5; the increase is ascribed to migration of the ester-anions into the hydroxylic counter-ion layer of the polymeric alkali.