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Organic Acids

 

What are organic acids?

An organic acid is an organic compound with acidic properties. The most common organic acids are the carboxylic acids whose acidity is associated with their carboxyl group -COOH.

Nomenclature-carboxylic acids have an -oic acid suffix (e.g. octadecanoic acid)

Examples- to see the names highlight name left of the structure

NameCondensed Structure
methanoic acidHCOOH
ethanoic acidCH3COOH
propanoic acidCH3CH2COOH
pentanoic acidC4H9COOH
nonanoic acidC8H17COOH

 

NameExpanded Structure
methanoic acid
ethanoic acid
propanoic acid

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