Choose the appropriate word(s) from the bracket [first, alc. AgCN, primary, decrease, third…
Choose the appropriate word(s) from the bracket [first, alc. AgCN, primary, decrease, third, increase, zero, Lucas, alc. KCN, KOH, no change, two, Tollen’s, AgOH, tertiary]:
The hydrolysis of ethyl acetate in acidic medium is a pseudo ____ order reaction. However, the molecularity of the reaction is ____.
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first; two. Acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of ethyl acetate involves water in large excess, so rate depends only on ester concentration (pseudo-first order), but two molecules collide in the rate-determining step, giving a molecularity of two.
From ISC 2026 Chemistry Paper 1, question 1(A)(iii).