Talk:Transesterification

Question
Is interesterified oil/interesterification the same as transesterification? Badagnani 02:58, 14 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I changed your articles Interesterified oil and Interesterification to re-direct to Interesterified fat. Transesterification seems to be a completely different process, use to make bio-diesel for example.--Chrisbak 21:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

IMHO it appears to be so, since they both redirect to the same article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesterification 199.214.27.152 23:13, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Transesterification = a double-displacement??
I was just studying the mechanism of Transesterification and, unless I'm mistaken on what exactly precisely constitutes a double-displacement (salt-metathesis), I think it may count as an example that may be worth noting. Albeit, it is *not* an ionic salt exchange, but instead covalent trades between an alcohol and an ester, but that seems to be covered in the main Salt Metathesis article, when it says "The bond between the reacting species can either be ionic or covalent."

I'm tempted to add a sentence explaining that "transesterification is a type of double-displacement reaction," but don't want to mislead anyone if the strict chemical basis for double-displacement disallows for this reaction mechanism.

If you have further info on whether yes, it does, or no, it does not, please let me know on my talk page. PolymathGirl (talk) 18:00, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Synthesis
While there are many good examples in synthesis, for example Otera's catalyst [used for transesterification] has been employed in a number of high impact total syntheses, the single example currently listed in the "synthesis" section is not a transesterification at all. To be sure it is a process that has some similarities of mechanism, but for it to be a transesterification one must start with an ester and end with a different ester, and this example one starts with an ester and ends with no ester. By the very definition of transesterification that is not one and thus should not be included as an example of one.64.112.182.1 (talk) 18:08, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Confusing Diagram
the reaction diagram is hard to understand if you don't already know what's going on. the only difference is between " and ' which are hard to visually distinguish, so it looks like nothing is happening. can't we use some other letter besides R to represent the other functional groups? 172.58.43.234 (talk) 19:00, 31 January 2022 (UTC)