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Using an acyl chloride as a starting compound, name the reactants you would use to make phenyl benzoate.
Important Questions on Carboxylic Acids and their Derivatives
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Complete the following equation:
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Discuss the mechanism of nucleophilic addition-elimination in the reaction between ethanoyl chloride and dimethylamine. Then try showing the mechanism using curly arrows.
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Which nucleophile you would expect to be most effective: ammonia, a primary amine or a secondary amine. Explain the inductive effect of alkyl groups.
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Acyl chlorides and carboxylic acids can both be used to prepare esters. Give the reagents and conditions required to make ethyl ethanoate directly from a carboxylic acid.
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Acyl chlorides and carboxylic acids can both be used to prepare esters. Write an equation to show the formation of ethyl ethanoate directly from a carboxylic acid.
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Acyl chlorides and carboxylic acids can both be used to prepare esters. Give the reagents and conditions required to make phenyl benzoate directly from an acyl chloride.
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Acyl chlorides and carboxylic acids can both be used to prepare esters. Write an equation to show the formation of phenyl benzoate directly from an acyl chloride.
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Acyl chlorides and carboxylic acids can both be used to prepare esters. Describe what you see happen in this reaction i.e. the formation of phenyl benzoate directly from an acyl chloride.
