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Chemistry Forums for Students => Organic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: bartek on May 04, 2010, 05:42:07 AM
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Will phenyl acetate (or generally - phenyl esters) be cloven to phenol and acetate salt, when refluxed with alkaline metal carbonate in anhydrous acetone or alcohol, or presence of water is essential?
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I think in refluxing alcohol you'll just facilitate transesterification rather than hydrolysis of the ester. Don't know about acetone, but if it's anhydrous I don't know if the carbonate salt would even dissolve.