Acids
Formation of ethanoic acid:
-oxidation of ethanol
-with acidified potassium mangenate (VII)
Ethanoic acid is a typical weak acid: it has a high (as in closer to 7 than 1) pH for an acid, and only dissociates a little bit.
Carboxylic acids react with alcohols to give esters, in a condensation reaction, for example:
Ethanoic acid + ethanol ⇌ ethyl ethanoate + water (the alcohol’s name becomes “-yl” part and the carboxylic acid’s name becomes the “-oate” part.
