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Isopentyl Acetate
. What would happen if you added a little bit of water to your reaction during the reflux? Explain your answer.
2. What was the purpose of each extraction step that you
performed during this experiment?
3. Suppose that 1.00 g of 3-methyl-1-butanol was reacted with 1.00
g of acetic acid and that 0.37 mL of isopentyl acetate was obtained
as product. Calculate the percent yield for this reaction. Show
your calculations.
4. Write a mechanism for the synthesis of isopentyl acetate. (previously a typo when it read ethyl acetate)