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प्रश्न
What do you notice when acetic acid reacts with alcohol?
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उत्तर
Acetic acid reacts with alcohols, forming esters in the presence of conc. H2SO4.
\[\ce{\underset{Acetic acid}{CH3COOH} + C2H5OH ->[H2SO4] \underset{Ethyl acetate}{CH3COOC2H5} + H2O}\]
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Name the functional group present in an organic compound which gives brisk effervescence with NaHCO3.
Why is the conversion of ethanol into ethanoic acid an oxidation reaction?
Give the structural formulae of acetic acid.
A student puts a drop of acetic acid first on a blue litmus paper and then on a red litmus paper. He would observe that
(A) the red litmus paper turns colourless and there is no change in the blue litmus paper.
(B) the red litmus paper turns blue and the blue litmus paper turns red.
(C) there is no change in the red litmus paper and the blue litmus paper turns red.
(D) there is no change in the blue litmus paper and the red litmus paper turns blue.
State how the following conversions can be carried out:
Ethyl chloride to Ethyl alcohol
Write a balanced chemical equation for the following:
Monochloroethane is hydrolysed with aqueous KOH.
When sodium hydrogen carbonate is added to ethanoic acid, a gas evolves. Consider the following statements about the gas evolved.
- It turns lime water milky.
- It is evolved with brisk effervescence.
- It has a smell of burning sulfur.
- It is also a by-product of respiration.
Assertion (A): Esterification is a process in which a sweet-smelling substance is produced.
Reason (R): When esters react with sodium hydroxide an alcohol and sodium salt of carboxylic acid are obtained.
Give the balanced chemical equation of the following reaction:
Evolution of carbon dioxide by the action of ethanoic acid with NaHCO3.
Give the balanced chemical equation of the following reaction:
Neutralization of NaOH with ethanoic acid.
