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What is esterification?

Important Questions on Carboxylic Acids

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Give any two uses of acetic acid.
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What will be the chemical formula of the resulting mixture formed, when ethyl alcohol is added to acetic acid?
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The reducing agent that reduces acetic acid to ethanol is
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Match the following

Column I Column II
(i) CH3CO2O (a) Ethyl ethanoate
(ii) CH3COCl (b) Acetic anhydride
(iii) CH3COOC2H5 (c) Acetyl chloride
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Name the compound formed when acetic acid and ethanol react together.
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From the box given, answer the question.

Ethane, Ethene, Ethanoic acid, Ethyne, Ethanol.

The compound with -COOH as the parts of its structure.

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What happens when ethanol is added to acetic acid?
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What happens when methanol reacts with carbon monoxide?