Chemical Properties of Carboxylic Acids

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Chemical Properties of Carboxylic Acids: Overview

This Topic covers sub-topics such as Esterification, Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky Reaction, Mechanism of Esterification, Reduction of Carboxylic Acids, Decarboxylation of Carboxylic Acids, Soda lime Decarboxylation and, Chemical Properties of Carboxylic Acids

Important Questions on Chemical Properties of Carboxylic Acids

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Identify A to D in the following sequences of operations:

 CH3CH2COOHΔNH3ABr2/KOH  BHONOC[O]CH3COOHDistilCa(OH)2D

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The reagents that can be used to distinguish between the following pairs of compounds would be:

(i) Propanal and Propanone

(ii) Phenol and Benzoic acid

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Write the conversion of benzoic acid into nitrobenzoic acid.

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What happens when an aqueous carboxylic acid dropped into litmus paper?

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Write the equation for the reaction of formic acid with fehling's solution.

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The Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction is used to

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When chlorine is passed through acetic acid in presence of halogen carrier (red P), it forms

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The carboxylic acid reacts with sodium hydroxide produces sodium salt of acid.

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The product of the reaction of carboxylic acid and sodium hydroxide can undergo decarboxylation. Write the chemical reaction of soda lime decarboxylation.

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Give the product obtained when benzoic acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.

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In the equation CH3COOH + Cl2 - HClRed Phosphorus A, the compound A is :

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When benzoic acid reacts with ammonia, product we get is _____.

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The reagent for the below conversion is_____.
RCOOHRCH2COOH 

(A) LiAlH4

(B) LiAl3H3

(C) LiAlH

Enter the correct answer as A, B or C.

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CH3COOHCH3COOCOCH3+H2O

In the above reaction, the number of moles of acetic acid required to prepare acetic anhydride is:

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C6H5OH+CCl4+4KOHAH+Acetic anhydrideB

What are A and B in the above reaction?

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Which of the following can undergo Ring substitution?

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Aromatic carboxylic acids undergo electrophilic substitution reactions in which the ______ group acts as a deactivating and meta-directing group.

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In HVZ reaction substitution takes place at:

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Which of the following will not undergo Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction?

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The organic compounds A and B reacts with sodium metal and liberates hydrogen gas. A and B reacts together to give ethyl acetate. The A and B are