Overall, the techniques used to analyze the sample proved effective at confirming that
both reactants and products were present in the sample.The techniques used to obtain
pure n-butyl acetate from the distillation of the reaction mixture acetic acid and 1-butanol did not
prove to be effective. Some water may still have condensed back into the reaction
mixture creating an equilibrium and thus stopping the reaction from moving forward and
producing 100 % pure n-butyl acetate. For future work, a liquid-liquid extraction could have
been used to isolate pure n-butyl acetate from the reaction sample.