[3.3.9] Carboxylic Acids & Derivatives Flashcards
Carboxylic acids & esters and acylation.
How do you name carboxylic acids?
Name this compound.
Propanoic acid
Name this compound.
Describe the acidity of carboxylic acids.
Describe the solubility of carboxylic acids.
What can be used as a functional group test for carboxylic acids?
What do carboxylic acids form when they react with alcohols in the presence of a strong acid catalyst?
How do you name esters?
What are the products of the reaction between ethanol and ethanoic acid? Draw the displayed formula of the products and name them.
What are some common uses for esters?
What are vegetable oils and animal fats esters of?
What can vegetable oils and animal fats be hydrolysed to?
- Vegetable oils and animal fats can be hydrolysed in alkaline conditions to give soap (salts of long-chain carboxylic acids) and glycerol.
How does soap allow for grease to be washed away?
What is biodiesel?
How can vegetable oils be converted into biodiesel?
How do you name acyl chlorides?
Name these two molecules.
Draw the structure of this acyl chloride: ethanoyl chloride.
Draw the structure of ethanoic anhyride.
Name this molecule.
Draw the structure of ethanamide.
How do you name amides?
Name these 2 compounds.
Draw this molecule: N,N,2-trimethylpropanamide.
What is the change in functional group, conditions, equation (structural and displayed), observations and mechanism for the reaction of water with ethanoyl chloride?
Draw the mechanism.
What is the change in functional group, conditions, equation (structural and displayed) and mechanism for the reaction of water with ethanoic anyhydride?
Draw the mechanism.
(Instead of there being Cl, imagine there is CH₃COO)
What is the change in functional group, conditions, equation (structural and displayed), observations and mechanism for the reaction of ethanol with ethanoyl chloride?
Draw the mechanism.
What is the change in functional group, conditions, equation (structural and displayed), and mechanism for the reaction of ethanol with ethanoic anhydride?
Draw the mechanism.
(Instead of there being Cl, imagine there is CH₃COO)
What is the change in functional group, conditions, equation (structural and displayed), observations and mechanism for the reaction of ammonia with ethanoyl chloride?
Draw the mechanism.
What is the change in functional group, conditions, equation (structural and displayed), and mechanism for the reaction of ammonia with ethanoic anhyride?
Draw the mechanism.
(Instead of there being Cl, imagine there is CH₃COO)
What is the change in functional group, conditions, equation (structural and displayed), and mechanism for the reaction of methylamine with ethanoyl chloride?
Draw the mechanism & name the product.
What is the change in functional group, conditions, equation (structural and displayed), and mechanism for the reaction of methylamine with ethanoic anhydride?
Draw the mechanism & name the product.
(Instead of there being Cl, imagine there is CH₃COO)
Describe the acid hydrolysis of esters.
Use ethyl propanoate as an example.
Descrbe the hydrolyis of esters using NaOH.
Use methyl propanoate as an example.
What will adding a strong acid to the product of hydrolysis form?
