of acids and alcohols to produce many different esters, is generally called the Fischer ester synthesis in honor of Emil Fischer (1852-1919) who devised it. In this experiment you will synthesize the ester, n-butyl acetate (bp 126.5°C), from acetic acid

Butyl acetates are commonly manufactured by the Fischer esterification of butanol (or its isomer to make an isomer of butyl acetate) and acetic acid with the presence of catalytic sulfuric acid under reflux conditions with this reaction: Occurrence in nat

Fischer Esterification and Identification of Butyl Acetate Johan Villanueva Lab Partner: Daniel Shipchandler TA: Matthew Pearson April 30th, 2018 5.310 MW Abstract The reaction of acetic acid and 1-Butanol with sulfuric acid created butyl acetate. Methods