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The use of ethanol instead of acetic acid is not the wise choice.
Why use of ethanol instead of acetic acid is not the wise choice?
When you are out of acetic acid and decide to use ethanol as the solvent in the transformation, it would not be a wise choice because acetic acid and ethanol are two totally different chemicals. Due to different in features, it can't act the same and the desirable results can't be observed.
So we can conclude that use of ethanol instead of acetic acid is not the wise choice.
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To use ethanol in place of acetic acid as a solvent in the transformation of 3 into 4, is not a wise choice.
What are functional groups?
Functional groups are the specific groups which after attaching to any molecule changes the property of the molecule.
Acetic acid has carboxylic (-COOH) group as functional group and ethanol has hydroxyl (-OH) functional group and both has different properties from each other. So use to ethanol in place of acetic acid is not correct as it will not fulfill the requirements of acid.
Hence use of ethanol in place of acetic acid is not a wise choice.
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