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An activity to perform esterification reaction and saponification reaction

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Answered by seemyadav
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Esterification:

  1. Take ethanoic acid and ethanol in two beakers.
  2. heat ethanoic acid with ethanol in presence of a few drops of concentrated sulphuric acid
  3. 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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