Kinetics and Mechanism of Hydrolysis of Succinimide under Highly Alkaline Medium

Abstract

The kinetic study of hydrolysis of succinimide has been done in highly alkaline medium. The hydrolysis follows an irreversible first-order consecutive reaction path of the type A→B→ C where k1 and k2 are the pseudo-first-orcler rate constants for reaction A → B and B → C, respectively. The variation of k1 and k2 with alkali concentration was found to be in agreement with equations k1(obsd) = B1 + B2[OH-] and l/k2(obsd) = C1 + C2/[OH-] where B1, B2, C1, and C2 are the arbitrary constants. © 1975, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.