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What products are fomed from when ethyl propanoate an ester of relatively low molecular weight is hydrolysed by aqueous sodium hydroxide ?

ethyl alcohol and sodium propanoate.

Aqueous sodium hydroxide will hydrolyzed the ester linkage present in ethyl propanoate to produce an alcohol (ethyl alcohol) and a carboxylic acid (propanoic acid). However, the medium is basic so that propanoic acid will undergo an acid base reaction with NaOH to produce sodium propanoate,

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