What are some carboxylic acids you encounter in daily life?

Answer 1

Carboxylic acids have the -COOH group, where the carbon is doublebonded to one oxygen and has a single bond to the other; the second oxygen is bonded to a hydrgen atom. This group is common in many natural places such as acetic acid and lactic acid. They are organic acids and do not ionize well in water, hence they are weak acids and weak electrolytes. Some examples are CH3COOH and CH3CH(OH)COOH.

Answer 2

Carboxylic acids are a class of compounds, not any single compound. There is a wide variety ranging from acetic acid (vinegar) and formic acid (in some ant venom) to phenylalanine (an amino acid) and lauric acid (a fatty acid).

Answer 3

A carboxylic acid is an organic acid. Organic acid is one that has the acid group made from carbon, oxygen and hydrogen.

Carbon has four bonds;

1. two bonds to one oxygen and
2. one bond to an oxygen with a hydrogen attached
3. one bond to the rest of the acid structure.

It is the hydrogen attached to the oxygen that gives the carboxylic acid its acidic properties.

All carboxylic acids are weak. Generally they are complex in structure and form the basis of the buffer system in living things.

The simplest carboxylic acid is methanoic acid - ant bites followed by ethanoic acid - in vinegar. (The traditional names of these two acids are formic acid and acetic acid.)

Answer 4

The general formula is R--COOH.

There is one C==O (double bond), and one C--OH (same carbon).

Answer 5

Acetic (ethanoic) acid is vinegar. Formic (methanoic) acid is the principal chamical in a bee sting and is also used to preserve specimens in jars and as an embalming fluid.

Answer 6

All carboxylic acids contain carbon hydrogen and oxygen.

Some may also contain other elements such as nitrogen and sulfur.

Answer 7

Best examples are Formic Acid (present in red ants),Butyric Acid (butter)

Acetic Acid (Vinegar) , Valeric Acid (roots of Valerion plant)

Lauric acid(lauereal oil)

Answer 8

R-COOH

where R is any alkyl or aryl group

Answer 9

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