Question

What product is expected to form in the absence of a buffer? Group of answer choices only entropy knows 3-chlorobenzoate ester 4-chlorobenzoate ester trans-anethole oxide

Answer 1

-only entropy knows

Step-by-step explanation:

A buffer is a solution whose primary function is to avoid changes in pH in an environment where one or more chemical reactions will run. In other words, the buffer prevents the pH (and the pOH as well, if any) from varying as strong acids or bases are added to a chemical reaction.

Changing pH and pOH in these reactions can prevent them from occurring, or even generate incorrect and inconclusive results. In short, when the buffer is absent in the reaction, the product will be something totally unpredictable, which only entropy will know.