Esters are sweet-smelling substances and are used in making perfumes. Suggest some activity and the reaction involved for the preparation of an ester with well labelled diagram.
Important Questions on Carbon and its Compounds
Look at the figure and answer the following questions.
What change would you observe in the calcium hydroxide solution taken in tube ?
Look at the figure and answer the following question.
Write the reaction involved in test tubes and respectively.
Look at the figure and answer the following questions.
If ethanol is given instead of ethanoic acid, would you expect the same change?
How would you bring about the following conversions? Name the process and write the reaction involved.
Ethanol to ethene
Write the reactions.
How would you bring about the following conversions? Name the process and write the reaction involved.
Propanol to propanoic acid.
Explain the given reaction with the example.
Hydrogenation reaction
Explain the given reaction with the example.
Oxidation reaction