The kinetics of piperidine replacement by pyridine at the pentacyano(piperidine)-ferrate(II) complex ion was studied under pseudo-first order conditions in binary aqueous mixtures of methanol, t-butanol, p-dioxane, and glycerol, from a mole fraction of co-solvent from 0 to about 0.15. The observed variations can be explained considering the degree of hydrophobic interaction between released ligand and water molecules which changes according to the structure-forming or struucture-breaking effect of added co-solvent on water.
Key words Solvent effects on kinetics - binary mixtures - hydrophobic interaction
Presented at the XVI Congreso Argentino de Química, Córdoba, Argentina, September 1982.