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A student plans to prepare ethyl ethanoate by reacting ethanol with ethanoyl chloride, .
Suggest the conditions needed for this reaction and the products formed.
CAIE A Level Chemistry 9701 · Hydroxy compounds
Hydroxy compounds: suggest question
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