Objective

After the completion of the lesson, students will be able to

• successfully complete a laboratory procedure to produce sweet-smelling esters.
• explain what happened at a molecular level during the ester synthesis lab.
• predict the product of a reaction between an alcohol and a carboxylic acid.
• define a chemical reaction
• define catalyst.

Ester Synthesis

Note

Notes on ester synthesis

Analyzing ester synthesis

Assignment

Ester Synthesis - rubric attached