Question

Draw the most stable form of the organic products formed in the following reacton of ethyl acetate and ethyl benzoate. Ethanol can be excluded from your answer. The product already there is correct and is the mixed Claisen condensation product. I also need the unmixed Claisen product.

Answer 1

Concepts and reason

The concept used to solve this problem is, crossed claisen condensation.

Ethyl benzoate (without $\alpha$ hydrogen) reacts with the ethyl acetate followed by the hydrolysis forms ethyl benzoylacetate.

Fundamentals

The ester without alpha ( $\alpha$ ) hydrogens serves as the electrophilic component in crossed claisen condensation.

The reaction is as follows:

The reaction is as follows:

The reaction is as follows:

The reaction is as follows:

Ans:

The possible organic products from the provided reaction are as follows:

Answer 2