Is hydrolysis exothermic or endothermic?
2 Answers
endothermic
Explanation:
because in hydrolysis....bonds are broken....which means energy is absorbed....and if energy is absorbed it is endothermic
It depends on the particular reaction.
Explanation:
Two points to remember:
- Breaking of bonds is always endothermic.
- Formation of bonds is always exothermic.
Consider the hydrolysis of an ester:
We could consider this simplistically as the breaking of two old bonds and the formation of two new bonds.
The energy terms for breaking and forming the
Probably of more importance are the relative stabilities of the products and the reactants.
If a product is much more stable than a reactant because of resonance, inductive, steric, or solvation effects, the hydrolysis will almost certainly be exothermic.