Department of Chemistry, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011 U.S.A.;Department of Chemistry, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450 U.S.A.
Abstract:
Six organometallic compounds were tested to see if they could behave as phase transfer catalysts. All of the compounds appeared to catalyze the base hydrolysis of p-nitrophenylacetate in a 2 layer aqueous-organic system.