Methanol + Salicylic acid → Methyl Salicylate + Water


Ethanol + Salicylic acid → Ethyl Salicylate + Water


Octanol + Acetic Acid → Octyl Acetate + Water


Isopentyl + Propionic Acid → Isopentyl Propionate + Water


1-pentanol + Butanoic Acid → Pentyl Butanoate + Water

Dont know how to do the products :/
/e Help with the first one at least so i can do the other 4 please!

This post was edited by Godzillatoss on Mar 6 2014 10:29pm

jk

Dude. You expect us to look up the molecular formulas and balance them for you........

1. read the edit
2. I know how to do some like:

Propene = CH2=CH2CH3
Ethanol = CH3CH2OH

But i dont know how you would represent an ester! how you would put it into this form since the C is attached to a double bonded O and the alcohol

This is what an ester looks like

you can do an ester like this

- O
- ||
cccoc




This post was edited by WhoBut_WBMason on Mar 8 2014 04:30pm

Think of acetic acid. Not quite an ester, but carboxylic acids are close enough to be used as approximations. CH3COOH

By having the -COOH at the end, people can safely assume it's a carboxylic acid (since peroxyacids are notoriously unstable).

By that logic, if I was working with methyl ethanoate, I'd represent it as CH3COOCH3.

The likelihood of that being a random peroxy- group in there are essentially zero, and because the methyl carbon has three hydrogens on it already, you can deduce that it doesn't have a double bonded oxygen attached.

This post was edited by Mikhail on Mar 12 2014 12:19am