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Kinetic Screening for the Acid‐Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Some Hydrophobic Fe(II) Schiff Base Amino Acid Chelates and Reactivity Trends in the Presence of Alkali Halide and Surfactant
Author(s) -
Nassr Lobna AbdelMohsen E.,
AbuDief Ahmed M.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of chemical kinetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1097-4601
pISSN - 0538-8066
DOI - 10.1002/kin.20927
Subject(s) - chemistry , reactivity (psychology) , hydrolysis , bromide , ammonium bromide , inorganic chemistry , schiff base , halide , catalysis , alkali metal , aqueous solution , pulmonary surfactant , cationic polymerization , reaction rate , reaction rate constant , organic chemistry , kinetics , polymer chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , medicine , biochemistry , alternative medicine , pathology
Kinetics of acid‐catalyzed hydrolysis of some high‐spin Fe(II) Schiff base amino acid complexes were followed spectrophotometrically at 298 K under pseudo–first‐order conditions. The studied ligands were derived from the condensation of 5‐bromosalicylaldehyde with different four amino acids (phenylalanine, aspartic acid, histidine, and arginine). The acid hydrolysis reaction was studied in aqueous media and in the presence of different concentrations of the alkali halide (KBr) and cationic surfactant (cetyl‐trimethyl ammonium bromide, CTAB). The general rate equation was suggested to be rate = k obs [complex], where k obs = k 2 [H + ]. The increase in [KBr] enhances the reactivity of the reaction, and the addition of CTAB to the reaction mixture accelerates the reaction reactivity. The obtained kinetic data were used to determine the values of δ m ΔG # (the change in the activation barrier) for the studied complexes when transferred from “water to water containing different [KBr]” and from “water to water containing altered [CTAB].”