Why? Haven't you read my post above?
Quote: | Back to hydrolysis to the alcohol. I tried this today, 20ml of 10M NaOH (not all dissolved at once- required heating) was added to 5ml of benzl
acetate in a 50ml RBF. |
What is the point in using such a huge NaOH concentration and sixfold excess? You don't heat 10M NaOH in a flask unless you want to ruin it.
Quote: | The mix was refluxed for one hour. After an hour the contents were allowed to cool and were checked and it seemed like none had undergone hydrolysis
(i.e. the layer was the same thickness) |
What is this "same thickness" supposed to mean? Have you analysed the reaction mixture in any way or not? If you have not, then how do you now that
the hydrolysis did not occur.
Besides, if unsure, why don't you just stick to a literature example?
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