Chapter 14: Carboxylic Acid and its Derivatives
NEB Class 12 Chemistry Unit 14 Carboxylic Acid and its Derivatives Notes, Exercise, Question Answer, PDF 2081-2082 (2024) Academic Year Notes.
Carboxylic Acid Syllabus:
14.1 Aliphatic and aromatic carboxylic acids
14.1.1 Introduction, nomenclature, and isomerism
14.1.2 Preparation of monocarboxylic acids from aldehydes, nitriles, dicarboxylic acid, sodium alkoxide, and trihaloalkanes
14.1.3 Preparation of benzoic acid from alkyl benzene
14.1.4 Physical properties of monocarboxylic acids
14.1.5 Chemical properties: Action with alkalies, metal oxides, metal carbonates, metal bicarbonates, PCl3, LiAlH4, and dehydration of carboxylic acid
14.1.6 Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction
14.1.7 Electrophilic substitution reaction of benzoic acid – bromination, nitration, and sulphonation)
14.1.8 Effect of constituents on the acidic strength of carboxylic acid
14.1.9 Abnormal behavior of methanoic acid
Check: NEB Class 12 Chemistry Syllabus
Introduction to Carboxylic Acid
Organic compounds that contain a carboxyl group (-COOH) are known as carboxylic acids. The carboxyl group is composed of a carbonyl group (>C=O) and a hydroxyl group (-OH).
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