not that this is really important, but in doing the trans-esterification, you want to push the reaction to the desired product (in this case the ester with the ethyl group) by having an excess of the ethanol at the beginning, thus forcing the methanol off.
One note:
not that this is really important, but in doing the trans-esterification, you want to push the reaction to the desired product (in this case the ester with the ethyl group) by having an excess of the ethanol at the beginning, thus forcing the methanol off.
sdmac21 1 year ago