Question

in a chemical equation what are the products of ethanol and acetic acid?

Answer 1

Under what conditions are you running this reaction under? Acidic or basic?

Answer 2

Personally, I suggest using acidic catalyst simply because it speeds up the reaction and one of your products will essentially be water.

Answer 3

it was in a lab we did a couple days ago and I need to know what the products of those two reactants

Answer 4

I'm assuming acidic catalyst then (for time constraints). Your product should be ethyl acetate.

Answer 5

I'm not going to go over the detailed mechanism because I think you should know it by now if you're doing this in lab...

Answer 6

ok thank you