Jinshou Wang, Yan Chen, Boan Shi
2013
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Journal of Molecular Liquids
Abstract
Abstract We have measured the rate of SN1 hydrolysis reaction of 2-bromo-2-methylpropane in triethylamine + D2O near and far away from its critical point by electrical conductivity experiment. We report the observation of critical slowing down in the rate of reaction in the one-phase region near the consolute point of triethylamine + D2O, in contrast to Kim and Baird, J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 8435 (2003), who reported speeding up in the one-phase region of triethylamine + H2O. Like them, however, we observed slowing down in the rate of reaction in the two-phase region near the consolute point.