Chemistry 332 - Winter 1997

Chapter 10 - Carboxyl Derivatives

Practice Exercises

Nomenclature

Practice naming all the various carboxyl groups in various combinations with other functional groups.


Acidity

Arrange the following in order of acidity:

Which is the more acidic:


Reactivity

Arrange the following in the order of their reactivity with ethanol. Also predict what the product of the reaction will be and write a balnced reaction.


Nucleophilic substitutions

Practice mechanisms for acid-catalyzed conversions of one derivative into another.



Synthesis

Practice with visualizing synthetic sequences backwards - given a target product, what are the possible reactions that could have created it?

Indicate two different ways to make the following:

Make the following compound starting with only alcohols having 4 or fewer carbons and any other needed inorganic reagents or solvents

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