20. Carboxylic Acid Derivatives:NAS
Carboxylic Acid to Acid Chloride
Problem 15a
Textbook Question
Textbook QuestionWhen a student treated butanedioic acid with thionyl chloride, she was surprised to find that the product she obtained was an anhydride rather than an acyl chloride. Propose a mechanism to explain why she obtained an anhydride.
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