Making esters - Part 1 | Chemistry Tutorial

Chemistry lecturer from the School of Molecular & Life Sciences, Dr Alexandra Yeung takes us through an experiment to create esters, or ethyl ethanoate.

[euansimpson]

This is amazing I hope you do more of these because you explain the reactions so well
thankyou so much

[TheAnimatedTeacher]

Excellent and clear explanation of each step. Thank you! I will be using this with my year 12 chemistry class.

[jadeykins]

Thank you for making this, it's very useful and Dr Yeung is very knowledgable

[joebine]

4 minutes in and this is much fun!🎉🎉🎉 thank you for this video!

[sakai]

This is a great video! Very well explained!

[bluemacaroons]

Thank you! This made my chemistry hw make more sense

[ستارهسهیل-ذن]

You explained in details, Thanks! It was perfect explanation

[joebine]

It was enjoyed and knowledgeable!!!❤ awesome video

[Al-Hussainy]

Very interesting, thank you for sharing this

[shescynical]

thank you so much for this! it helped me so much.

[magnuswootton]

making solid esters is more exciting, and how is this ester supposed to form if ur just putting the steam back into the flask again, dont u have to get rid of it completely?

[LeboMaite]

Why do esters with higher molecular masses not have strong odours

[willyhsu]

what could be a possible resaon that my ethyl acetate isn't splitting with water during isolation?

[DaleLane]

haha, I remember this lab from y first degree at Curtin, same lab 20yrs later.

[prachisarkate]

If we want aolid form of product then what to do

[hkharis]

why did nt you add any water immiscible organic solvent like diethy ether or any to extract ester?

[roslailiyuhanisramli]

What concentration is the sulphuric acid used?

[johnblacksuperchemist]

know you can shift the equilibrium by adding an abundance of one of the reactants. Usually that is the alcohol. Why did you choose acetic acid as the abundant Was there a reason or was it just an arbitrary

[mattflores]

Would magnesium sulfate be a good drying agent as well?

[leoking]

How can we separate unreacted alcohol from ester. Specially in case of isopentyl alcohol and isopentyl acetate.