Carboxylic Acids

Naming carboxylic acids

What are the physical properties of carboxylic acids?

Describe the solubility of COOH

How do COOH relate to membranes?

How do carboxylic acids usually exist?

Are carboxylic acids acids or bases?

Why are carboxylic acids more acidic than alcohols?

How does anion stability vary with increasing chain length of carboxylic acids?

How are carboxylate salts made?

How can you explain the polarity of these salts?

How do we know the precise mechanism of esterification?

What do alkyl groups tend to do?

Describe the process of protonation of COOHs

How do we know the precise mechanism of esterification?

Show the mechanism of ester formation

What is the alpha carbon?

Mechanism of Amide formation

Lactam formation