{"id":238,"date":"2016-08-20T08:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T08:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labnetwest.colourfi.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:03:51","slug":"esters-experiment-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/esters-experiment-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Esters experiment alternative:"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Question:<\/h5>\n<p>Can you please tell me the details of the experiment where you use jelly beans in lieu of esters?<\/p>\n<h5>Answer:<\/h5>\n<p>Esters \u2013 A Tasty Investigation<br \/>\n<em>(This activity compliments the Experiment 32 in STAWA Year 12 ATAR\u00a0 Exploring Chemistry Laboratory Manual).<\/em><br \/>\nKey Ideas:Alcohols and carboxylic acids react to form esters.<br \/>\nEsters have pleasant odours and are used to give food flavour.<br \/>\nThe laboratory preparation of esters is dangerous and not always very successful.<br \/>\nBy giving the students the equations to write and then the jellybean to identify the flavour, the activity is enjoyable, relevant and fulfills the purpose of the experiment.<br \/>\nThe jellybeans used are Jelly Belly brand. For suppliers, see the Suppliers page under Jelly Belly Jelly Beans. Different flavours can be bought individually by weight.<br \/>\nEQUATIONS:<br \/>\npentanol + ethanoic acid produces pentyl ethanoate + H2O (Banana)<br \/>\noctanol + ethanoic acid produces octyl ethanoate + H2O (Orange)<br \/>\npentanol + pentanoic acid produces pentyl pentanoate + H2O (Apple)<br \/>\npentanol + butanoic acid produces pentyl butanoate + H2O (Pear)<br \/>\nethanol + methanoic acid produces ethyl methanoate + H2O (Raspberry)<br \/>\nmethanol + butanoic acid produces methyl butanoate + H2O (Pineapple)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Can you please tell me the details of the experiment where you use jelly beans in lieu of esters? Answer: Esters \u2013 A Tasty Investigation (This activity compliments the Experiment 32 in STAWA Year 12 ATAR\u00a0 Exploring Chemistry Laboratory Manual). Key Ideas:Alcohols and carboxylic acids react to form esters. Esters have pleasant odours and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[7,14],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-experiments","tag-advice","tag-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}