Journal of Surface Science and Technology

Anadi C. Dash ¹, Bhaskar Dash ¹, Debraj Panda ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Chemistry, Utkal University, Bhubaneshwar-751 004, IN

Abstract

The effect of cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide on the kinetics of base hydrolysis of the title schiff bases was investigated in 5% v/v methanol-water medium at 35°C, 0.0002 ≤ (CTAB)_T ≤ 0.02 mol dm^-1, and 0.01 ≤ [OH]_T ≤ 0.07 mol dm^-3 (I=01 mol dm^-3). The imine anions bound to the CTAB micelle are observed to undergo hydrolysis at rates much slower than in the aqueous pseudo phase. This indirectly supports our earlier conclusion that the hydrolysis of these anions involve participation of the intramolecular general base catalysis of the phenoxide group.

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