Dehydration and esterification of alcohols
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- Created on: 16-05-13 17:31
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- ESTERIFIC - ATION AND DEHYDRATON OF ALCOHOLS
- ESTERIFIC - ATION
- The reaction of an alcohol with a carboxylic acid to produce ester and water
- Alcohol provids 'yl' and carboxylic acid provides 'anoate' part eg methanol and propanoic acid = meth'yl' porp'anoate'
- Concentrated sulphuric H2SO4 acid is used as the catalyst
- Heat
- The reaction of an alcohol with a carboxylic acid to produce ester and water
- DEHYDRATION
- Dehydration is an elimination reaction in which water is removed from a saturated (single bonds) molecule to produce an unsaturated (double bonds) molecule
- Concentrated sulphuric H2SO4 or concentrated phosphoric H3PO4 may be used as catalysts
- Reflux
- ESTERIFIC - ATION
- R
- C
- O
- C
- C
- O
- H
- O
- H
- C
- H
- H
- H
- R
- C
- =O
- O
- C
- H
- H
- H
- C
- C
- H
- O
- H
- O
- -->
- +
- +
- C
- O
- H
- C
- H
- H
- H
- H
- H
- O
- --->
- C =
- = C
- H
- H
- H
- H
- = C
- H
- O
- H
- O
- O
- H
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