Alkaline hydrolysis if the phenyl acetates CH3COOC6H4X (X = 4-NO2, 3-NO2, 3-Cl, H, 4-CH3, 3-CH3, and 4-OCH3) in the presence of hexadecyltris(2-hydroxyethyl)ammonium chloride, bis(2-hydroxyethyl)hexadecyl(methyl)ammonium bromide, and hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide has been studied. Comparison of the rates of the hydrolysis for the above tenzides showed that the most efficient catalyst is the hexadecyltris(2-hydroxyethyl)ammonium chloride. In all cases, the rate data correlated well with structure effects by the Hammett equation.