Exam 20: Carboxylic Acids

Propose a reasonable synthetic route to prepare butanal from butanoic acid.

Which of the following is the strongest acid?

2-Phenylethanol yields what acid upon treatment with hot chromic acid or permanganate?

Provide the major organic product of the reaction shown below.

Provide the major organic product of the reaction shown below.

Which of the following reagents can be used to convert a carboxylic acid directly into its corresponding acid chloride derivative?

Which of the following compounds is the strongest acid?

The methyl ester of a carboxylic acid can be synthesized directly using ________.

Lithium aluminum hydride reduces carboxylic acids to primary alcohols via what intermediate?

Provide the structure of 3,3-dimethylheptanoic acid.

Which of the following must be converted into a carboxylic acid through nitrile hydrolysis rather than through a Grignard synthesis with Mg/ether followed with dry CO₂ and work-up with H₃O⁺?

The combination of a carbonyl group and a hydroxyl group on the same carbon atom is called a ________ group.

How does the O-H stretch in the IR spectrum of a carboxylic acid differ from the O-H stretch of an alcohol?

Provide the major organic product of the reaction shown below.

Which of the following would be the preferred reagents used in the following synthesis?

Provide the structure of zinc undecanoate, a major component in several athlete's foot medications.

What is the common name for the following compound?

Provide the major organic product of the reaction shown below.

Provide the major organic product of the following reaction.

Provide a detailed, stepwise mechanism for the methylation of a carboxylic acid with diazomethane.