Carboxylic Acids

• What are carboxylic acids a homologous series of?

  Organic compounds
• What is the functional group of carboxylic acids?

  c-o-o-h
• What do the names of carboxylic acids end with?

  anoic acid
• What is the name of the carboxylic acid with three carbons?

  Propanoic acid
• What are the other carboxylic acids you need to know?

  Methanoic, ethanoic, butanoic acids
• How should the formulas of carboxylic acids be written?

  COOH groups together at the end
• How do carboxylic acids behave in reactions?

  They react like any other acid
• What type of acids are carboxylic acids?

  Weak acids
• What does it mean that carboxylic acids are weak acids?

  They don't fully ionize in solution
• How is the ionization of carboxylic acids represented?

  With an equilibrium arrow in equations
• What do the negative ions formed from carboxylic acids end with?

  anoate
• What does propanoic acid ionize into?

  Propanoate ion and hydrogen ion
• What do carboxylic acids form when reacted with metal carbonates?

  Salt, water, and carbon dioxide
• What is formed when ethanoic acid reacts with potassium carbonate?

  Potassium ethanoate, water, and carbon dioxide
• How are carboxylic acids made from alcohols?

  By oxidizing the alcohol with an oxidizing agent
• What is the alcohol used to make butanoic acid?

  Butanol
• What happens during the oxidation of butanol?

  An oxygen is added to form butanoic acid
• What is the final product when butanol is oxidized?

  Butanoic acid
• What are the key characteristics of carboxylic acids?

  • Homologous series of organic compounds
  • Functional group: c-o-o-h
  • Names end in "anoic acid"
  • Weak acids that do not fully ionize
  • Form negative ions ending in "anoate"
• What is the general reaction of carboxylic acids with metal carbonates?

  • React to form:
  • Salt
  • Water
  • Carbon dioxide
• How are carboxylic acids synthesized from alcohols?

  • Oxidation of alcohols using oxidizing agents
  • Example: Butanol oxidized to butanoic acid