Carboxylic Acids and its derivatives

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Front (Question)

What are carboxylic acids reduced to?

Back (Answer)

Aldehydes

Front (Question)

Are carboxylic acids weak or strong?

Back (Answer)

Weak

Front (Question)

What is a test for carboxylic acids?

Back (Answer)

Add a named carbonate such as Na2CO3, and bubbles of CO2 will be produced

Front (Question)

Give a formulaic equation to show what happens when a carboxylic acid is reacted with Na2CO3

Back (Answer)

RCOOH + Na2CO3 –> RCOO-Na+ (salt of carboxylic acid) + CO2 + H2O

Front (Question)

An ester is formed from an alcohol and carboxylic acid in a process called ____

Back (Answer)

Esterification

Front (Question)

Which reactants and catalyst are required for esterification?

Back (Answer)

Alcohol and carboxylic acid Conc. H2SO4 catalyst

Front (Question)

What is the general formula for an ester?

Back (Answer)

RCOOR

Front (Question)

Esterification produces an ester. What else is produced?

Back (Answer)

H2O

Front (Question)

What is the suffix for esters?

Back (Answer)

-anoate

#10

Front (Question)

How do you name an ester?

Back (Answer)

RO- alkyl group from alcohol followed by RC=O carboxylate from the acid

#11

Front (Question)

What were the reactants used to produce methylethylmethanoate?

Back (Answer)

Methanoic acid propan-2-ol

#12

Front (Question)

How can the esterification reaction be reversed?

Back (Answer)

By acid or alkali hydrolysis

#13

Front (Question)

What is the difference in products of acid and alkaline hydrolysis?

Back (Answer)

Acid - alcohol and carboxylic acid Alkaline - alcohol and salt of carboxylic acid

#14

Front (Question)

Triglycerides are sters of what?

Back (Answer)

Glycerol with fatty acids

#15

Front (Question)

Give an example of a reactant that could be used to turn an ester into a carboxylate salt and an alcohol

Back (Answer)

NaOH (alkali)

#16

Front (Question)

What is IUPAC name for glycerol?

Back (Answer)

propane-1,2,3-triol

#17

Front (Question)

Give a use for glycerol

Back (Answer)

Used in cosmetics, foods and glues to stop them drying out

#18

Front (Question)

Give a use for the salts of fatty acids

Back (Answer)

Soap

#19

Front (Question)

State what is meant by the term ‘biodiesel’

Back (Answer)

A clean burning renewable fuel made using natural vegetable oils and fats

#20

Front (Question)

What reactant, when added to triglycerides, produces glycerol and FAMEs?

Back (Answer)

3CH3OH (an alcohol)

#21

Front (Question)

State what is meant by ‘acylation’

Back (Answer)

A reaction in which the acyl group (RC=O) is introduced into another molecule by replacing a H atom

#22

Front (Question)

Which two types of molecules can perform acylation?

Back (Answer)

Acyl chlorides and acid anhydrides

#23

Front (Question)

What is the general formula and suffix of acyl chlorides?

Back (Answer)

RCOCl -anoyl chloride

#24

Front (Question)

What is the general formula and suffix of acid anhydrides?

Back (Answer)

-anoic anhydride