Carboxylic acids

Question 1

What is the carboxylic acid functional group?

Answer 1

-COOH

group can only be at the end of a carbon chain

contains the carbonyl group

and the hydroxy group

Question 2

How does having two groups on the same carbon affect the moleculke?

Answer 2

• changes properites
• -OH group in carboxylic acids is much more acidic than the -OH group in alcohols

Question 3

How are carboxylic acids named?

Answer 3

• using the suffix -oic acid
• the carbon of the functional group is counted as part of the carbon chain of the root

Question 4

How are carboxylic acids named with side chain on the carbon chain?

Answer 4

• branches are numbered
• counting from the carbon of the carboxylic acid as number one

Question 5

What happens when the carboxylic acid group is found on a benzene ring?

Answer 5

• the suffix- carboxylic acid is used
• and the carbon of the functional group is not counted as part of the root