Organic Acids

• Carboxylic acids contain the carboxylic acid group.
• Their names end with –oic acid.
• The functional group on the carboxylic acids can be summarised as -COOH. However the two oxygens aren’t actually joint together:
• The simplest carboxylic acid groups contain an alkyl group attached to a carboxylic acid group- RCOOH.
• Two carboxylic acid groups can also be present. The suffix “dioic acid” is then used:
• A carboxylic acid group can also be attached to a benzene ring:
• The –OH group on the carboxylic acid group can be replaced to form a wide range of acid derivatives:
  
  

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