Structure Property Relationships of Carboxylic Acid Isosteres

Esterification is a reversible reaction, which means that it can also go in the opposite direction the ester reacts with water to form a carboxylic acid

A carboxylic acid can be thought of as a combination between two functional groups: an alcohol group, involving a hydrogen bound to an oxygen, which attaches to

miracid The carbonyl stretch C=O of a carboxylic acid appears as an intense band from 1760-1690 cm-1 The exact position of this broad band depends on whether the

miracid 20mg Carboxylic acid groups, , that conceptually replace CH3 groups terminating an acyclic hydrocarbon chain are denoted by adding the suffix -oic acid or -dioic