Skip to main content
Chemistry LibreTexts

Acid chlorides react with alcohols to form esters

  1. Last updated
  2. Save as PDF
  • Page ID
    5955

    • Acid chlorides react with alcohols to form esters

    General Reaction

    Example 1:

    Mechanism

    1) Nucleophilic attack by the alcohol

    2) Leaving group is removed

    3) Deprotonation

    Contributors

    Prof. Steven Farmer (Sonoma State University)