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Esters being used as solvents

Why is it useful for esters to have a low boiling bond to act as solvents? The textbook mentions its so that they can 'evaporate easily from mixtures' but I don't see how that property would be useful for solvents

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Pigster

Original post by aque1408

An analogy:

The reaction between citric acid (solid) with sodium hydroxide (solid) to form sodium citrate (solid) will not happen as everything is in the solid phase.
So, we dissolve both reactants in water and mix them.
A solution of sodium citrate forms. But we want solid sodium citrate!
So, we evaporate off the water. Which is easy to do as water has a low BP.