Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Esterification is the general name for a chemical reaction in which two reactants form an ester as the reaction product. Esters are common in organic chemistry and biological materials, and often have a characteristic pleasant, fruity odor. This leads to their extensive use in the fragrance and flavor industry. Ester bonds are also found in many polymers. Esterification is a reversible reaction. Hydrolysis—literally "water splitting"—involves adding water and a catalyst to an ester to get the sodium salt of the carboxylic acid and alcohol. As a result of this reversibility, many esterification reactions are equilibrium reactions and therefore need to be driven to completion according to Le Chatelier's principle. Esterifications are among the simplest and most often performed organic transformations

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