CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND USES CARBOXYLIC ACIDS

This unit is about Reaction of Carboxylic Acids with Metals, Ionization of Carboxylic Acids, Acidity Constant, Effect of substituents on the acidity of Carboxylic Acids, Conversion of Carboxylic Acids into functional derivatives, Conversion of Carboxylic Acids into Esters (Esterification), Mechanism of Esterification, Transesterification, Hydrolysis of esters, Reduction of Esters, Conversion of Carboxylic Acids into Amides?, Conversion of Carboxylic Acids into Acid Anhydrides, Reduction of Carboxylic Acids to Alcohols, Reaction of Carboxylic Acids with PCl5, PCl3 and SOCl2