CAIE A-Level Chemistry 32.1 Alcohols
Practise recognising alcohol acylation and drawing the ester formed when an alcohol reacts with an acyl chloride.
- Syllabus
- 2028–2030
- Course
- Chemistry 9701
- Level
- A2
Exam points
- identify the alcohol oxygen as the site that becomes bonded to the acyl group during ester formation
- replace the acyl chloride’s Cl with the alcohol-derived –OR group when drawing the ester product
- include HCl as the other product and preserve any additional functional groups in a larger molecule
