The ester methyl butanoate has the odor and flavor of strawberries.
c. Write the balanced chemical equation for the acid hydrolysis of methyl butanoate.

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The ester methyl butanoate has the odor and flavor of strawberries.

c. Write the balanced chemical equation for the acid hydrolysis of methyl butanoate.

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Welcome back, everyone. We methyl beryl ethanolate has a distinct odor of bananas and is often used in artificial banana flavorings. Provide a balanced equation for the acid catalyze hydrolysis of three methyl Beryl ethanolate. So first of all, let's draw the structure of this specific ester. And we know that esters, they have carbonyl and oxygen bonded to that carbonyl. Now, first of all, let's begin with the parent and it states Hanno, which means that we have a two member chain one and two. And now the Al Coxie substituent is the beal group. So we're going to add a four member chain 12, we and or carbon atoms. What we can see is that position number three has a methyl substituents. We're going to count the number of carbon atoms, we have 12 and three. So that position number three is going to have an additional methyl substituent. And now we want to essentially write a balanced chemical equation for the acid catalyze hydrolysis. And hydrolysis simply means that we're adding water. If this is an acid catalyzed hydrolysis, we can essentially state that the catalyst would be a water. Oh actually, the catalyst will be an acid, right? So what we want to do is draw the equilibrium arrows because this is a reversible reaction and include an acid. And generally we use sulfuric acid, but we can use an abbreviation such as H plus, which represents an acid and there is also heat involved in this reaction. Now, let's recall that the products are a carboxylic acid and an alcohol. And we can get these products by breaking the carbon oxygen single bond. This gives us acetic acid as one of our products because as we can see, we have Carboni with a methyl group bonnet to it. And then we are replacing the oxygen atom with hydroxyl. The remaining part becomes an alcohol. So we want to draw oxygen with a four member chain as well as a muscle group. And then we want to add hydrogen to oxygen because it is an alcohol. So we have the product. Now does it need to be balanced? Well, no, because essentially we are getting rid of the alcoy fragment and taking one hydrogen from water right to form an alcohol and the remaining oh is added to the acid. So it doesn't need any balancing. And we have our final equation. Thank you for watching.

The ester methyl butanoate has the odor and flavor of strawberries.
c. Write the balanced chemical equation for the acid hydrolysis of methyl butanoate.
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Key Concepts

Ester Hydrolysis

Balanced Chemical Equation

Acid Catalysis