Is saponification in organic reaction?
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Saponification is an organic chemical reaction that utilizes an alkali to cleave an ester into a carboxylic acid and alcohol. As we will see shortly, the primary use for this reaction is during the production of soap products. The terms ester, carboxylic acid, and alcohol are functional groups.
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