What Is the Function of Sulfuric Acid in Esterification?
Jun 28, 2020· Sulfuric acid is a colorless, odorless and oily liquid. Carboxylic acids (RCOOH, where the R is an organic attachment) may be too weak to use, unaided, for an esterification reaction. A strong proton donor is needed to make the carboxylic acid act as if it were, of itself, a good proton source.