Effects of Organic Salts on the Rate of Alkaline Hydrolysis of Phthalimide in the Presence Ofcationic Micelles

Pseudo-first order rate constants (k_obs) for alkaline hydrolysis of phthalimide (PTH), obtained at constant concentration of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTABr) and 35°C, vary with the concentration of organic salts ([MX]) according to the relationship: k_obs = (k₀ + K [MX])/(1 + K [MX]) where and K are empirical parameters. The values of K at 0.01 M CTABr are nearly 2 times larger than the corresponding K values at 0.02 M CTABr for sodium benzoate, disodium phthalate and disodium isophthalate.