acid catalysis
What acid catalysis means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
Concentrated sulfuric acid is used as a catalyst that is regenerated, not a reactant in the equation.
The acid is regenerated rather than being consumed, so it acts as a catalyst in the reaction.
Topics that use acid catalysis
- Carboxylic acids and esters (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Alcohols (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Acidified dichromate(VI) as oxidising agent
- alkyl alkanoate naming
- Balancing redox half-equations
- carboxyl group
- Controlling oxidation products
- Counting carbon neighbours of the –OH-bearing carbon
- Distillation versus reflux
- Elimination reactions
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