CH 106 - Lesson 4

More Oxyorganic Compounds:

Carboxylic Acids, Salts, Esters, Ethers

Introduction

In this lesson we continue to deal with oxygen-containing organic compounds. Two of the types of compounds we will study in this lesson were mentioned in the previous lesson as products of reactions that we studied then. Those compounds were ethers, from the intermolecular dehydration of alcohols, and carboxylic acids, from the oxidation of aldehydes. We will start this lesson with carboxylic acids and get to ethers near the end of the lesson.

We will also deal with esters, which are formed by the intermolecular dehydration of carboxylic acids with alcohols. This lesson also includes a section on carboxylate ions and salts, which are formed when carboxylic acids react with chemicals that remove the acidic hydrogen ions from carboxylic acids.

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