7.18 Ethyl acetate is formed by the reaction between ethanol and acetic acid and the equilibrium is represented as:
(iii) Starting with 0.5 mol of ethanol and 1.0 mol of acetic acid and maintaining it at 293 K, 0.214 mol of ethyl acetate is found after sometime. Has equilibrium been reached?
Let the volume of the mixture will be V.
initial conc. 1/V 0.5/V 0 0
At equilibrium (= 0.786/V)
Therefore the reaction quotient of the reaction-
Since equilibrium has not been reached.