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Grade 12th pass10 grade science

Methanol to ethanoic acid.

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4 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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4 Years ago
The conversion of the methanol to ethanoic acid is done by using phosphorus pentachloride which reduces the alcoholic group to the chloride group. And then we add sodium cyanide in order to increase the number of carbons in the basic change, which upon hydrolysis gets converted to a carboxylic group.