An activity to perform esterification reaction and saponification reaction
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Esterification:
- Take ethanoic acid and ethanol in two beakers.
- heat ethanoic acid with ethanol in presence of a few drops of concentrated sulphuric acid
- you will observe that a sweet smellingester called ethyl ethanoate is formed.
The reaction can be shown as:
CH3COOH +C2H5OH ------>CH3COOC2H5+H20
ethyl ethanoate
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