Question

Hydrolysis of an ester in presence of a dilute acid is known as saponification. (True / False)

Answer 1

》Esters can be cleaved back into a carboxylic acid and an alcohol by reaction with water and a base.

》 The reaction is called a saponification from the Latin sapo which means soap.

》 name comes from the fact that soap used to me made by the ester hydrolysis of fats.

》》BE BRAINLY 《《