Kinetics of ion-pair exchange in acetic acid
Abstract
The rate constants for the ion-pair metatheses p-toluidinium toluene-p-sulphonate + metal acetate ⇌p-toluidinium acetate + metal toluene-p-sulphonate have been measured using an n.m.r. technique; the rate constants are ca. 109M–1 S–1 and show that the slow step in the exchange involves cation–acetate cleavage.