Explain The Effect Of Substrate And Quantity Of Catalyst In The Esterification Reaction.

[Tahseencheema]

Explain the effect of substrate and quantity of catalyst in the esterification reaction.

[dave50]

Why?

[drmorgans]

Why not? Does seem a bit random though.

[dannyk13]

//Some esters can be prepared by esterification, a reaction in which a carboxylic acid and an alcohol, heated in the presence of a mineral acid catalyst, form an ester and water: The reaction is reversible. As a specific example of an esterification reaction, butyl acetate can be made from acetic acid and 1-butanol.//
Simples.

[Peter Pedant]

Tahseen - this is not an answer-mill where you plug in your homework and out come an answer - 10/10 !
as the posts above show

here - read for the first time or re-read the chapter on rates

Substrate is easy - - [S} in your law of mass action
Longish answer - Law of Mass action Km= [A][B] blah blah

and then quantity of catalyst - well when I was doing this if a large quantity was needed then it wasnt a catalyst by deffo
It might have changed
or the may need that the catalyst holds the substrate in the activate form for longer ( than without) - or something else

that's it! - cant get worked up about this one