Answered: What does a carboxylic acid consist of?

Chemistry: Matter and Change

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Chapter21: Hydrocarbons

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What does a carboxylic acid consist of?

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Carboxylic acid, any of a class of organic compounds in which a carbon (C) atom is bonded to an oxygen (O) atom by a double bond and to a hydroxyl group (―OH) by a single bond.

A fourth bond links the carbon atom to a hydrogen (H) atom or to some other univalent combining group.

Oic is the suffix used for carboxylic acid as a main functional group.

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CH₃CH₂CH₂CH₂COOH.

The carboxylic acid derived from pentane is pentanoic acid

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