EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -A low-boiling (57 °C) colourless, flammable liquid, it is used as a solvent for many resins and oils. This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team. Methyl acetate, also known as MeOAc, acetic acid methyl ester or methyl ethanoate, is a carboxylate ester with the formula CH3COOCH3.

Detailed explanation-2: -The functional group present in CH 3 COCH 3 is Ketone .

Detailed explanation-3: -The IUPAC name of CH3COOCH3 is methyl acetate.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is an acetate ester, a methyl ester and a volatile organic compound.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ethyl acetate, also known as 1-acetoxyethane or acetic ester, belongs to the class of organic compounds known as carboxylic acid esters. These are carboxylic acid derivatives in which the carbon atom from the carbonyl group is attached to an alkyl or an aryl moiety through an oxygen atom (forming an ester group).