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Organic Chem
Indicate how a butanoic acid can be converted to an a) acid chloride; b) acid anhydride; c) an ethyl ester, and d) an N-methyl amide. Give the reagents that would be used. Then indicate how each of these derivavtives could be converted back to butanoic acid under both acidic and basic conditions.
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