Talk:Ester

Listing

Do we indeed really need to mention a whole list of esters? The chemistry section is much more important. There are not even mechanisms in there that explain the acid cat. ester formation! Sikkema 12:30, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I think the ester_compound page should be moved back here. The other pages are not as important as the chemistry one, except for the ester, alaska one but a note at the top of the page would suffice for that. Ester final fantasy is trivial and esther i the bible is not even the same spelling. Its not called an ester compound anyway, if anything it should just be ester (chemistry). Borb 08:28, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

I think the list is a great idea. I just recently ran into an unknown ester where all I had to go on is the smell, and this list was a good reference. Just saying. -Courtney —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.152.216.24 (talk) 22:10, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

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It might do to describe which isomer of the pentyl radicals are refered to in some of the esters given.

• Given that one-carbon differences in chain length lead to distinguishable

odors, and that different optical isomers of odorants/flavorants (eg, carvone) lead to distinguishable odors, I would be *very* surprised if there were not also a dependency on pentyl chain isomerism.

Could anyone explain how the term mono-ester and di-ester is used?

• This page needs a bit on mono, di and poly esters (I linked it to polyester page already, but thats also not very good). Basically a monoester is just an ester (one ester) a di-ester is two esters bonded together (the same way as polyesters).

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Why is there a "List of ester odorants" here that partially duplicates, but is less complete than, the "List of ester odorants" on List of esters? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.53.59.221 (talk) 18:06, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

move ester compound back?

yes, the ester content did move to ester compound because other ester (esther) definitions started to pop up. feel free though to revert this edit back to the original but please consider a solution for the other definitions.

Ester

It might be easier if you had links that actually showed the structure.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.27.132.105 (talk)

"Esters are a class of chemical compounds and functional groups."

This definition is unsat. Needs to distinguish esters from other chem compounds and functional groups.

Norm

Diesters

Diester should not redirect to an article that both fails to define it, and fails to cover the subject adequately. The only diester content I see is on malonate chemistry, which is not generalisable. 98.193.42.97 (talk) 22:21, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

"In school".

Making ethyl butyrate in a high school classroom environment is an excellent teaching exericse. Ethyl alcohol, of course, is THE "alcohol" smell. Butyric acid is the smell of rotten butter. Put a few drops together in a test tube, immerse in a beaker of boiling water, and hey presto! You've got the smell of pineapple !!! Similarly with the Oil of Wintergreen. 2001:8003:E40F:9601:2C0A:71A2:EA2F:3CF9 (talk) 04:22, 15 October 2024 (UTC)