Effects of nonionic micelles on the rate of alkaline hydrolysis of N-(2'-methoxyphenyl)phthalimide (1): kinetic and rheometric evidence for a transition from spherical to rodlike micelles under the typical reaction conditions

• Main Authors: Sim, Y.L., Yusof, N.S., Ariffin, A., Niyaz Khan, M.
• Format: Article
• Published: Academic Press 2011
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/1931/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21549387
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Pseudo-first-order rate constants (k(obs)) for alkaline hydrolysis of N-(2'-methoxyphenyl)phthalimide (1) decrease nonlinearly with increasing total concentration of nonionic surfactant C(m)E(n) (i.e. [C(m)E(n)](T) where m and n represent the respective number of methyl/methylene units in the t...