Research Article

The Unanticipated Catalytic Activity of Lithium tert-Butoxide/THF in the Interesterification of Rapeseed Oil with Methyl Acetate

Table 3

The dependence of the degree of ion pair dissociation on the COMRR.

COMR (COMRR)Equilibrium constants and degree of ion pair dissociation
K = 0.002K = 0.0036K = 0.004829

0.03 (0.004)50.060.065.0
0.04 (0.014)31.339.544.0
0.05 (0.024)25.032.035.9
0.06 (0.034)21.527.731.3
0.07 (0.044)19.224.828.1
0.08 (0.054)17.522.725.8
0.10 (0.074)15.119.822.5
0.12 (0.094)13.517.820.2
0.15 (0.124)11.915.717.9