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How can you favor the formation of an ester when reacting a alcohol and carboxylic acid?
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∙ 12y ago
A dehydration reaction of a carboxylic acid and an alcohol using an acid catalyst:
R1COOH + R2OH --> R1CO-OR2 + H-OH (water is driven away to drive the reaction)
This is done by using the alcohol's oxygen as a nucleophile and forming a tetrahedral intermediate. Most importantly--the -OH group of the carboxylic acid must become a better leaving group by protonating it to become -OH2+ group.
Esters can also form using base as a catalyst.
R1COO-+ R2OH --> R1CO-OR2 +-OH
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∙ 14y ago
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What are the products of an ester and water?
An alcohol and a carboxylic acid salt (carboxylic acid if protonated at end of reaction).
What organic compound group are esters in?
Esters are generally studied as derivatives of carboxylic acids
How formation of esters occurs?
Esters are formed by the reaction of alcohol and carboxylic acid in the presence of a sulphuric acid as a catalyst. The reaction is known as esterification.
What is produced when a carboxylic acid reacts with an acid chloride?
The reaction between a carboxlic acid and an alcohol is named as esterfication. Ester is formed during this reaction.
What type of functional group results when the alcohol group on glycerol reacts with the carboxylic acid group on a fatty acid?
ester
What are the products of an ester and water?
An alcohol and a carboxylic acid salt (carboxylic acid if protonated at end of reaction).
Is ether a compound formed from compounding a carboxylic and an alcohol?
No - the reaction product of an alcohol and a carboxylic acid is an ESTER not an ether
What is the proper order of boiling points from highest to lowest for a hydrocarbon an alcohol a carboxylic acid and an ester?
Hydrocarbon < ether < alcohol < carboxylic acid
What organic compound group are esters in?
Esters are generally studied as derivatives of carboxylic acids
How formation of esters occurs?
Esters are formed by the reaction of alcohol and carboxylic acid in the presence of a sulphuric acid as a catalyst. The reaction is known as esterification.
What conditions can produce hydrolysis of an ester?
Either an acidic of basic condition can produce hydrolysis of an ester. An ester is derived from an alcohol and a carboxylic acid.
What is the reaction of an ester and a base?
Acid has little or no effect except possible exchange of acid groupd between ester and the introduced acid - transesterification. Base - a salt of the acid part of the ester will form and the alcohol or some substituted form of it - that depends on the base used. There is no simple answer as the acids and bases that could be used are almost limitless.
Reacting an organic acid with a primary alcohol yields what products An Aldehyde A Ketone An Alkyne An Ester?
an ester is formed
What type of reaction has takin place when an ester is broken down to an alkanoic acid and alkanol?
The parent carboxylic acid and the parent alcohol can be obtained by hydrolysis of an ester. Hydrolysis is a reaction in which a molecule is split up by the chemical action of water. The breakdown of an ester is an example of hydrolysis because water is used to separate the ester into alcohol and a carboxylic acid.
What is produced when a carboxylic acid reacts with an acid chloride?
The reaction between a carboxlic acid and an alcohol is named as esterfication. Ester is formed during this reaction.
What type of functional group results when the alcohol group on glycerol reacts with the carboxylic acid group on a fatty acid?
ester
Is ch3ch2co2h a ester?
No, it is a carboxylic acid.
