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Transesterification of ethyl acetate and butyl butyrate in the presence of sulfuric acid

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The transesterification of ethyl acetate and butyl butyrate in the presence of sulfuric acid is zero order in ethyl acetate and first order in butyl butyrate. The activation energy of the reaction is 13 kcal /mole. The SNl mechanism was proposed.

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  1. Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, USSR

    N. S. Vedenyapina, V. V. Ivanov & N. S. Enikolopyan

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  1. N. S. Vedenyapina
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1530–1533, July, 1973.

The authors express their gratitude to I. S. Morozova for taking the NMR spectra.

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Vedenyapina, N.S., Ivanov, V.V. & Enikolopyan, N.S. Transesterification of ethyl acetate and butyl butyrate in the presence of sulfuric acid. Russ Chem Bull 22, 1483–1485 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00930043

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