Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Esters
- Attractive smells in
perfumes = esters.
- Also used as flavourings in sweets.
- You can smell
esters because
their molecules
escape easily.
- Ethanoic Acid
(acid)
- + Ethanol
(alcohol)
- = Ethyl Ethanoate
(ester)
- + Water
- Reactions of alcohol and
carboxylic acid make
long-chain esters. This is a
polyester.
- Long-chain molecules = made into fibres = woven into fabric