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I tried to make a christmas themed reaction mechanism in one of our experiments. It is a low quality photo, but I still got the hang of Christmas even it already passed so I figured to share what I was up to before the break.

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Acylation of an alcohol using acetyl chloride.

Acetyl chloride, CH3COCl is an acid chloride derived from acetic acid. It is a colorless, corrosive, volatile liquid that reacts readily with a lot compound.

Acetyl chloride is a reagent for the preparation of esters and amides of acetic acid, used in the derivatization of alcohols and amines. In this case it was reacted with an alcohol to form an acetate ester. As seen a vigorous reaction happened as the acetyl chloride (dropping to the reaction mixture from the addition funnel) mixed with the alcohol (in the flask). Often bases should be added to accelerate the acylation, but in the case the reaction happened immediately and HCl gas evolved from the reaction mixture.

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Definition,Mechanism & Difference Between Alkylation and Acylation

Alkylation is a transfer of alkyl group from one molecule to another using an alkylating agent. These alkylating agents have the ability to add a desired aliphatic hydrocarbon chain to the starting material. Unlike alkylation, acylation is the process of adding an acyl group to a compound using an acylating agent. These acylating agents have the ability to add desired RCO- group to the starting…