Thank you so much for all of the work you've put into making your channel. The quality of your tutorials is unprecedented. I'm procrastinating the hell out of an organic chemistry lab report on Fischer esterification that's due tonight, as any good student would, and this video is a huge help.
I love that you teach us these simple tricks about what product will be formed. I've been drawing out the full mechanism for each reaction, and while my professor requires that for a lot of the problems, this helps me know I've arrived at the correct answer.
finally makes so much sense for the intermediate proton transferring part, i cldnt figure out how it jump that far till now i learned its from sovolysis deprotonate n protonate ! thanks a millions for the life saving vdo!!
Thank you. So the lesson here: if u don't want to fuck up your reaction, u better have quite an amount of excess alcohol. Increase H+ would be helpful to increase reaction rate to some extent.
@@raitodigital2092 Most classroom discussion of Fischer esterification use either thionyl chloride or sulfuric acid to start the reaction by protonation.
Could you have used the Cl ion from the acid catalyst to deprotonate the methanol attached to the tetrahedral intermediate? Or does it have to be the solvent that does this?
The maximum percentage of HCl is 37% in water, therefore 63% of the HCl solution is water and would shift the equilibrium to the left and form reactants over products.
@Pride oh my god really?! I’m doing this in my last year of a levels (age 18) before university. Would university typically be the first time EVER that you cover esterfication. Do you not learn it in like chemistry or AP classes?
