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Thursday, November 12, 2015
Could you explain why the carbonyl group of ethyl acetate is more stable than that of ethyl thioacetate? (The carbonyl group is more stabilized in esters, because the lone electron pair on oxygen (period 2) better fits by size to the pi-system of the C=O group ((period 2) than the lone electron pair on sulfur does (period 3).
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