Sunday, April 6, 2008

Organic Chem Review- Carboxylic Acid

Carboxylic Acids
Know their Nomenclature
Properies: Acidity ( subsituent effects)
EWG( increase acidity)
EDG (decrease acidity)
Know their prepration from alcohols/Aldehydes with strong oxidizing agents. Also using the grignard reaction, followed by acidic hydrolysis.
Know Fisher Esterification reaction
Hell-Vollhard-Zelinski reaction

Also know their (Derivatives)
Acid chlorides, Anhydrides, Esters, Amides and Nitriles
-Nucleophilic Acyl substitution ( Hydrolysis, Alcoholysis and reactions with Amines)
Hofmann Rearrangment

Keywords: Hydrolysis, Ester formation, Anhydride formation, Aminolysis, Substituted amide formation, reduction, reaction with Gillman reagents, Saponification, Acid hydrolysis, Base Hydrolysis.

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