Objectives Chapter 17
Carboxylic Acids Brown Foote & Iverson 4th ed.
Read Chapter 17 study
key reactions1, 2, 3 5, 6, 8, 9
&10 pgs.670-672
1. Be able to name any acid
having up to 10 carbon atoms in its structure according to the IUPAC system or
vice versa. In addition, be able to give the common names for the straight
chain acids containing 1 to six carbon atoms.
2. Be able to name any salt of an acid given its structure or vice versa.
3. Be able to name any ester given its structure or vice versa.
4. Be able to arrange a series of acids according to increasing acidity given
their structures.
5. Be able to define Ka and pH. Give a value for Ka and
the initial concentration of an acid, be able to calculate the pH of the
solution.
6. Be able to write equations showing how acids can be prepared from by
oxidation methods starting from primary alcohols, aldehydes, alkyl aromatics.
Be able to show how acid can be prepared by hydrolysis reactions starting with
nitriles, amides, esters, acid chlorides, acid anhydrides. Be able to show how
acids can be prepared from alkyl or aromatic halides via the Grignard reaction
.
7. Be able to give the mechanism for the esterification of an acid using acid
as a catalyst. Show which step is the the slow step in the mechanism.
9.. Be able to show the
mechanism of the hydrolysis of an ester under acid conditions. (reverse of the
formationof an ester)
9. Be able to write equations showing how an acid can be reduced to an alcohol
via a reaction with LiAlH 4 .
10. Given a carboxylic acid, be able to write an equations showing how it could
be converted in to an acid chloride.
11. Be able to give the products of heating of a beta ketoacid
(decarboxylation)
12. Be able to do the following problems in Chjapter 17, 17.1 (pg 649)17.2 (pg 653) 17.3 (pg 655) 17.4 (pg 661), 1`7.5 (pg 666)and at the end of Chapter 17 work problems: 8, 10,15, 17, 18, 19, 25, 27, 28, 32, 37 & 42.