Why does acetyl chloride (2 carbons with l polar functional group) react with wa

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Why does acetyl chloride (2 carbons with l polar functional group) react with water almost violently, but you had to warm and shake the mixture of water and benzoyl chloride (7 carbons)? What is the gas in the bubbles observed when the crude methyl benzoate product is washed with sodium bicarbonate? Write a balanced chemical equation that produces this gas. Write the mechanism, showing electron flow with arrows, for the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of methyl acetate to acetic and methanol - the reverse of a Fischer esterfication reaction.

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Why does acetyl chloride (2 carbons with 1 polar functional group) react with water almost violentely

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benzyl chloride reacts with water is a hydrolysis reaction.

benzyl chloride +    water --------à benzyl alcohol and hydrochloric acid.

It is a volatile reaction at room temperature

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