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Q. The alkaline hydrolysis of an ester represented by $ RCOOR+O{{H}^{-}}\xrightarrow{{}}RCO{{O}^{-}}+ROH $ is

JIPMERJIPMER 1999

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Alkaline hydrolysis of esters, is an example of bimolecular and second order reaction as the rate of reaction depends upon the concentration of both ester and alkali.