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QUESTIONS : 1.
Many of the flavours and smells of fruits are esters. A learner prepared an ester with a sme
Ilke banana in the school laboratory using pentanol and ethanoic acid. She set up the
apparatus as shown in the diagram below.
PAPER TOWEL DIPPED
-WATER BATH
IN COLD WATER
PEITANOL ETHANOIC
ACID+ 4 DROPS OF
SULPHURIC ACID
1.1 Which property of sulphuric acid makes it suitable to use as a catalyst for the
preparation of esters?
1.2 Why do we heat the test tube in a water bath and not directly over a flame?
1.3 With reference to the characteristic smells of esters, name TWO examples where
esters are used in different industries.
1.4 State ONE function of the wet paper towel in the opening of the test tube.
1.5 Write down the IUPAC name of an ester fomed.

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