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Investigation of the kinetics of the acid-catalyzed, degradative rearrangement of cumene hydroperoxide to phenol and acetone in aqueous acetic acid containing varying amounts of ^-toluenesulfonic acid has shown the reaction to be first order with respect both to the hydroperoxide and to hydronium ion. It is not catalyzed by molecular acetic acid. The over-all activation energy for the decomposition in fifty weight per cent, acetic acid at unit ionic strength is 21.3 kcal./mole.

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