Date of Award

5-1952

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Chemistry

First Advisor

Scott L. Kittsley

Second Advisor

John R. Koch

Third Advisor

Virgil Roach

Abstract

Experimentation on the rate of hydrolysis of esters is preceded only by the rate of inversion of cane sugar started by Wilhemy in 1850. However, work on ester hydrolysis soon took the stage in preference as the reaction most favorable to the study of reaction rates. Ostwald's work on the rate of hydrolysis of ethyl acetate in 1884 was the first monumental work and experimentation then proceeded so rapidly that in 1889 Arrhenius' theory of hydrogen ion catalysis and later the dissociation theory itself was born and nursed. Yes, nursed by many more ester hydrolysis experiments which built up such an avalanche of evidence in Arrhenius' favor that today much of modern chemistry is based upon these findings.

Comments

A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Under-Graduate School Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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