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Aqueous alkali hydrolysis of acetic anhydride yields two moles of acetate ion.

(CH3CO)2CO
  +  
2
[OH]
         
2
[CH3COO]
  +  
H2O
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Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
British A-Level Chemistry: AS
Functional Group Interconvertion
Hydrolysis
Substitution: Addition-followed-by Elimination
Substitution: Multi-Step
Substitution: Nucleophilic @ Acyl-Nfg

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