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Grade 12Inorganic Chemistry

why the ester hydrolysis is slow in the beginning and becomes faster after some time?

Profile image of jayaram
12 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Maruthi Sirisilla
12 Years ago

 ans:-a homogenous catalyst is dissolved in a solvent together  with the  rectants. we used the catalyst sulphuric acid it''s become faster

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Profile image of G.Rajashekar
12 Years ago

here the catalyst  H2SO4 acts as a promoter so after some time the rate of reaction is increases.

Profile image of Aditi
7 Years ago
Because here the acid produced during the reaction acts as a catalyst and makes the reaction faster which was initially slower. Here H2SO4 acts as an auto catalyst i.e.it acts as a catalyst in the same reaction in which it is obtained as product