Organic Acids

 

Structure of a carboxylic acid

 

 

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



  

  

    

      Name
      Structure
    

    

      methanoic acid
      HCOOH
    

    

      ethanoic acid
      CH3COOH
    

    

      propanoic acid
      CH3CH2COOH
    

    

      pentanoic acid
      C4H9COOH
    

    

      nonanoic acid
      C8H17COOH
    

  

  





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