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Kinetics of esterification of 1-pentanol by isobutyric acid and benzyl alcohol by acetic acid

M. Petro, D. Mravec, and J. Ilavský

Department of Organic Technology, Slovak Technical University, CS-812 37Bratislava

Abstract:  The authors of this paper investigated the temperature dependence of equilibrium constant for the formation of 1-pentyl isobutyrate from 1-pentanol and butyric acid as well as benzyl acetate from benzyl alcohol and acetic acid by using sulfuric acid as a catalyst. Moreover, they examined the temperature dependence of the rate constants of esterification for these esters and expressed it by the Arrhenius equation in the form In {k_v+} =f(1/T).

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Chemical Papers 37 (4) 461–466 (1983)