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Esterification mechanisms
The article on pp. 27–31 explores naturally occurring esters, but we can also make esters in the laboratory (see CHEMISTRY REVIEW, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 6–9). Here we look at an example of this type of reaction step by step
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