Abstract: Rates of the water-catalyzed hydrolysis of chloromethyl dichloroacetate in 2- butoxyethanol-water mixtures in the temperature range from 2.5 to 45 OC at 2.5 “C intervals were measured conductometrically when the mole fractions of water were 0.988, 0.984, 0.981, 0.980, and 0.975. The Arrhenius plots for the reactions are S shaped when the mole fraction of water is from 0.984 to 0.975. Thus the sign of the heat capacity of activation ...
