What is Acetic Anhydride in chemistry?


A colorless liquid boiling point 139.4 C and having irrtating smell. it is obtained by distilling a mixture of anhydrous sodium acetate and acetyl chloride.

CH3COONa + CH3COCl →(CH3CO)2O+NaCl

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What is Acetic Anhydride in chemistry?


Acetic anhydride, or ethanoic anhydride, is the chemical compound with the formula (CH3CO)2O. Commonly abbreviated Ac2O, it is the simplest isolable anhydride of a carboxylic acid and is widely used as a reagent in organic synthesis