Reversible?

Chemistry Level 1

True or false:

C 2 H 5 OH + CH 3 COOH HCL CH 3 COOC 2 H 5 + H 2 O \large \text{C}_2\text{H}_5\text{OH} + \text{CH}_3\text{COOH} \stackrel{\text{HCL}}\rightleftharpoons \text{CH}_3\text{COOC}_2\text{H}_5 + \text{H}_2\text{O}

False True

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

1 solution

Vilakshan Gupta
Feb 3, 2018

The reactions are Esterification reaction which is from left to right and Saponification Reaction which is from right to left, hence reactions are reversible.

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...