From the eenhancement observed in G* values with simultaneous decrease in the values of H and S* of the reaction, it is concluded that the organic co-solvent dimethyl formamide (DMF) acts as entropy controller and enthalpy stimulator solvent for alkali catalysed solvolysis of Methyl nicotinate.

Form the evaluated values of water molecules associated with the activated complex of the reaction which are found to increase with increase in the temperature of the reaction, it is inferred that the bimolecular mechanistic path is changed to unimolecular in presence of the organic component (DMF) of the reaction media. The numerical value of Iso-Kinetic temperature of the reaction which comes to be nearly 287.5 (below 300) indicates that there is weak but considerable solvent-solute interaction in the aquo-DMF solvent system.