How would you make ethyl acetate?

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Mar 5, 2018

This is esterification.

Explanation:

Most commonly achieved via ethanol reacting with ethanoic acid (old name acetic acid) to form ethyl ethanoate or ethyl acetate. Performed with an acid catalyst. Same product could form from ethanol and ethanoyl chloride (old name acetyl chloride.

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