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Offline Rutherford

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Organic acid with OH group reaction
« on: November 11, 2012, 07:02:45 AM »
What is happening in the attached reaction? Is the product some kind of lactone and is this reaction common for organic acids that have an -OH group attached?
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Re: Organic acid with OH group reaction
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2012, 07:37:33 AM »
What would you normally expect to happen if you mixed acetic acid and ethanol in the presence of an acid catalyst?

This case is not conceptually/mechanistically different.
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Re: Organic acid with OH group reaction
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2012, 07:52:33 AM »
Got it. It is esterification. Then, if the lactone gets hydrolised with a base I would get the acid again. Thanks for the tip.
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