Question

Product of butanone and ethanol

Answer 1

Can someone please verify my work. Been having trouble with this problem

Answer 2

this reaction can go in other path as H from HCl dissociates and combine with OH making OH2+(one of the best leaving groups) and left is carbocation which also can attack on C=0

Answer 3

@divu.mkr Thank you for your response! Would there be anyway that you could draw that out? :/

Answer 4

i can send you the other mechanism...but that would not be possible here