182 1 Chromen 2 one is the parent organic compound of a class of naturally occurring photochemicals found in many plant species such as meliot, tonca beans, lav ender, sweet clover grass and licorice. It occurs in food plants such as strawberries, apricots, cherries, and cin namon. It is thought to work as a pesticide for the plants that produce it. This oxygen heterocycle is best known for its fragrance described as a vanilla like odor or the aroma of freshly mowed hay. It is the odoriferous principle of wood ruff, which led to its wide spread use as a perfumery chemical in industry [1]. Chromen 2 one derivatives have also found applications as fluores cent dyes [2,3], antitumor agents [4], antioxidants [5], antiinflammatory agents [6], antineoplastic agents [7], immunomodulant agents [8] antifungals [9], antico agulants [10], antibacterials [11], antimicrobial [12] and insecticides agents [13], proliferators of HIV [14, 15], and particular human malignant cell lines in vitro [16, 17], as well as affecting tumor activity of several tumor types in vivo [18][19][20]. The synthesis of nitro substituted chromen 2 ones has been undertaken as part of a general scheme of search for physiologically active compounds, in view of the fact that nitro substi tuted compounds have a unique place in the attack against pathogenic microorganisms [21].Rate coefficient for the reaction between organic and inorganic compounds with hydroxide ions in aqueous solutions is sensitive to the nature and molar 1 The article is published in the original. fraction of organic cosolvent. The rate constants in binary aqueous mixtures depend on the composition of the solvent [22,23].In our work, we report here the effects of methanol and acetone, as organic cosolvents, on the kinetics of the base hydrolysis of 6 nitro 2H chromen 2 one (NC) and 6 nitro 2H chromen 2 one 3 carboxylic acid (NCC) at different temperatures to gain more information about the activation parameters of base hydrolysis of these two compounds.
EXPERIMENTALMaterials All materials, sodium hydroxide, sodium chloride, sodium nitrate, methanol, and acetone were obtained from "BDH". The stock solutions of NaOH, NaCl O O O 2 N O O O 2 N COOH 6 Nitro 2H chromen 2 one 3 carboxylic acid (NCC) 6 Nitro 2H chromen 2 one (NC)Abstract-Kinetics of the base hydrolysis of 6 nitro 2H chromen 2 one (NC) and 6 nitro 2H chromen 2 one 3 carboxylic acid (NCC) in water-methanol and water-acetone mixtures was studied at temperature range from 283 to 313 K. The activation parameters of the reactions were evaluated and discussed. The change in the activation barrier of the investigated compounds from water to water-methanol and wateracetone mixtures were estimated from the kinetic data. The base hydrolysis of NC and NCC in the watermethanol and water-acetone mixtures follows a rate law with k obs = k 2 [OH -] and k obs = k 1 + k 2 [OH -], respectively. The decrease in the rate constants of NC and NCC hydrolysis, as the proportion of methanol and acetone increases, is accounted for by the destabilizatio...