Carboxylic acids
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What is a carboxylic acid?
A homologous series of organic compounds containing the functional group -COOH.
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What do the names of carboxylic acids end in?
They end in -oic acid.
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What are the first four carboxylic acids?
Methanoic acid, ethanoic acid, propanoic acid, butanoic acid
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What sort of acids are carboxylic acids?
They are weak acids so they don’t fully ionise.
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What happens when carboxylic acids react with carbonates?
Acids react with metal carbonates to form a salt, carbon dioxide and water.
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How are carboxylic acids made?
When an alcohol is oxidised by an oxidising agent.
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