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Title: What is the product of esterification between butan-2,3-diol and propanoic acid?
Post by: mystreet123 on June 14, 2016, 11:11:41 AM

What is the product of esterification between butan-2,3-diol and propanoic acid?

Title: Re: What is the product of esterification between butan-2,3-diol and propanoic acid?
Post by: thetada on June 14, 2016, 11:23:19 AM

Check out the below link, make an informed prediction, and we'll tell you if you've got it right or not.

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/alcohols/esterification.html (http://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/alcohols/esterification.html)

Title: Re: What is the product of esterification between butan-2,3-diol and propanoic acid?
Post by: Babcock_Hall on June 14, 2016, 01:22:40 PM

If you have not drawn out the compounds yet, doing so would probably help.