Aspirin also known as acetylsalicylic acid possesses an ester group that is formed from the reaction between ethanoic acid and salicylic acid. Determine the structure of aspirin after the condensation between ethanoic acid and salicylic acid.

Now aspirin, also known as Acetylsalicyclic acid, possesses an ester group that is formed from the reaction between ethanoic acid and salicyclic acid. Now, determine the structure of aspirin after the condensation between ethanoic acid and salicyclic acid. Alright. So here, ethanoic acid, oic acid tells me that this is the carboxylic acid, and we know that we're gonna lose an o h from the carboxylic acid in terms of this condensation reaction. Next, we know that we're gonna lose an h from where? So here we have a carboxylic acid group, and we have an alcohol group. Remember, the carboxylic acid we already said is this one, it's losing an o h. The h has to come from the alcohol, and this is where we lose water. And as a result of this loss of water, we're going to create our ester linkage, which connects these 2 molecules together. So now you know the molecular formula and molecular structure of Aspirin. Now, we know it has to be this way because although there's a carboxylic acid here, this is not an alcohol, so we couldn't lose the Oh here since again this is not an alcohol. The alcohol is on the same molecule as this carboxylic acid, they wouldn't react together. Remember condensation is a way of connecting 2 different molecules together through the loss of water. So again, this would be our final structure for the aspirin molecule.