Acid/base-catalyzed ester hydrolysis in near-critical water

Abstract

Hydrolyses of substituted benzoic acid esters in near-critical water (250–300 °C) show autocatalytic kinetic behavior and surprisingly give the same rate constant regardless of substituent, suggesting that an acid-catalyzed mechanism predominates under our reaction conditions.

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