ethyl ethanoate with water (acid catalysed) to produce ethanol and ethanoic acid. On my GC graph i have peaks consistently for ethyl ethanoate, ethanol and propanol (internal standard). My question is why doesn't water or ethanoic acid appear on the gc graph?
ethyl ethanoate with water (acid catalysed) to produce ethanol and ethanoic acid. On my GC graph i have peaks consistently for ethyl ethanoate, ethanol and propanol (internal standard). My question is why doesn't water or ethanoic acid appear on the gc graph?
It's been sometime since I did this but isn't there other smaller peaks that add up to make up these compounds?