Talk:Ester
From Academic Kids
I think the ester_compound page should be moved back here. The other pages are not as important as the chemistry one, except for the ester, alaska one but a note at the top of the page would suffice for that. Ester final fantasy is trivial and esther i the bible is not even the same spelling. Its not called an ester compound anyway, if anything it should just be ester (chemistry). Borb 08:28, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
It might do to describe which isomer of the pentyl radicals are refered to in some of the esters given.
- Given that one-carbon differences in chain length lead to distinguishable
odors, and that different optical isomers of odorants/flavorants (eg, carvone) lead to distinguishable odors, I would be *very* surprised if there were not also a dependency on pentyl chain isomerism.
Could anyone explain how the term mono-ester and di-ester is used?
- This page needs a bit on mono, di and poly esters (I linked it to polyester page already, but thats also not very good). Basically a monoester is just an ester (one ester) a di-ester is two esters bonded together (the same way as polyesters).
If anyone has the rules handy (I don't right now), a description of the IUPAC method for naming esters would be handy. 24.118.220.84 06:36, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
Chemical properties
I was frustrated by the lack of information on the chemical properties of esters. Are the reactions listed the only ones that it usually goes through? Could someone please post more information?
- The reaction(s) listed are not the only ones esters can undergo. A discussion of all the reactions esters can be involved in can fill up an entire chapter of an organic chemistry book. It's not practical to list them all in a general encyclopedia. Some day, when I have time, I might do some work on this esters article. H Padleckas 09:19, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I'll get some info up in the future.
move ester compound back?
yes, the ester content did move to ester compound because other ester (esther) definitions started to pop up. feel free though to revert this edit back to the original but please consider a solution for the other definitions.
