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Acid-Catalyzed Ester Hydrolysis Concept 1
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Hey, everyone. So in this video, we're gonna take a look at acid catalyzed hydrolysis of ester's. Now under this reaction, an ester is hydrolyzed into a carboy and an alcohol in an acidic medium. Now, when we say hydrolyzed and we say hydrolysis reaction, well, this just means a reaction that breaks out a molecule through a reaction with water. And the basic idea of this reaction is that if we take a look here at this general reaction here, we have our ester bond here. This blue part here and water with the use of an acid catalyst in the form of H plus, it's gonna be used to cut this ester bond as a result of this, the carbon carbon gains in. Oh So here are carbonyl carbon gains in oh And it becomes a carbolic acid. And then the oxygen which was part of the ester linkage will gain one hydrogen atom. This helps to create it into an alcohol. So the basic idea of this reaction is that we have an ester and through the use of water and an acid catalyst, we help to create a carbolic acid and an alcohol as our two products?
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Acid-Catalyzed Ester Hydrolysis Example 1
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Draw skeletal formulas for the products of the following reaction. So here we have our ether and we're using water with our H plus acid catalyst. Now, remember the premise of this reaction is we're going to cut the ester bond here as a result of this, the carbon carbon. Here, we'll gain an oh group to become a carbolic acid. And then we're gonna say that oxygen here will gain a hydrogen and create an alcohol. So in this acid catalyst hydrolysis, we have our er being transformed into a carbolic acid and an alcohol as our two products.
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Write a common name for the carboxylic acid produced in the following reaction.
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Oxalic acid
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Valeric acid
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Butyric acid
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Malonic acid
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