294 | Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life

1148.058 - 1178.529 Addy Pross

Now, if you take a carboxylic acid and you methylate it, which you can consider a source of material but also a source of energy, you end up with an ester. Now, that is a downhill reaction, because you started off high in energy, and you go downhill, and you end up with your ester, nice crystals. And that's a very familiar reaction that we've known for, I don't know, well over 100 years.