What are the products of hydrolysis of aspirin in HCl soln?

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What are the products of hydrolysis of aspirin in HCl soln?

2007-03-01 21:35:01 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry

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acetic acid and salicylic acid.
You can see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylic_acid
for the structure of salicylic acid and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin
for the structure of aspirin

You'll see that aspirin is an ester and of acetic acid with the phenolic -OH group of the salicylic acid.

2007-03-01 22:00:20 · answer #1 · answered by bellerophon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋