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Question
How will you prepare ethyl acetate from methyl acetate?
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Solution
Conversion of methyl acetate into ethyl acetate:
\[\ce{\underset{(Methyl acetate)}{CH3COOCH3} ->[C2H5OH/H^+] \underset{(Ethyl acetate)}{CH3COOC2H5} + H2O}\]
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