Propyl acetate is the ester that gives the odor and smell of pears.
d. Write the balanced chemical equation for the base hydrolysis of propyl acetate with NaOH.

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Propyl acetate is the ester that gives the odor and smell of pears.

d. Write the balanced chemical equation for the base hydrolysis of propyl acetate with NaOH.

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Welcome back, everyone. Variety. Balanced chemical equation for the base catalyzed hydrolysis, which is also known as saponification of methyl salicylate and also responsible for the winter green scent with koh. So let's draw the starting materials. We have an ester which is methyl salicylate. Now, what we're going to do is simply recall that the structure consists of the benzene ring, an alcohol group or basically oh bonded to be in the ring. So we have phenol, right. And then at the adjacent carbon, we're simply adding carbonyl oxygen. And because it's methyl salicylate, we simply want to add that methyl group to oxygen. So we have the starting ester which reacts with potassium hydroxide. Koh. Now let's introduce a reaction arrow and introduce heat because heat is required for this specific hydrolysis. Now, how do we get our products? Well, essentially we have to recall that esters are going to have their carbon oxygen single bond broken, right. So we can essentially draw the resultant fragments. First of all, if we break that carbon oxygen single bond, we're going to have carbo and the other fragment is going to be oxygen bonded to CH three, right? CH 30 let's recall that in the base hydrolysis, we are essentially producing a carboxylate salt as well as in alcohol. So our salt is missing oxygen that is negatively charged. And also we can add a counter ion, which is the potassium cion. This is how we get our first product. And for the alcohol, of course, we are missing hydrogen because alcohols have a general form of Roh Right. And that's it. We have determined the products for this specific problem. Thank you for watching.

Propyl acetate is the ester that gives the odor and smell of pears.
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d. Write the balanced chemical equation for the base hydrolysis of propyl acetate with NaOH.

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Ester Hydrolysis

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Saponification Reaction

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