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CARBOXYLIC ACIDS. Properties and Synthesis. NOMENCLATURE. IUPAC NOMENCLATURE. -oic acid IUPAC ending -carboxylic acid IUPAC ending for ring compounds. Naming. 3-Methylbutanoic acid b -Methylbutyric acid Isovaleric acid. 2-Chloropentanoic acid a -Chlorovaleric acid.
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CARBOXYLIC ACIDS Properties and Synthesis
IUPAC NOMENCLATURE • -oic acid IUPAC ending • -carboxylic acid IUPAC ending for ring compounds
Naming 3-Methylbutanoic acid b-Methylbutyric acid Isovaleric acid 2-Chloropentanoic acid a-Chlorovaleric acid
4-Aminobutanoic Acid g-Aminobutyric Acid “GABA” Naming 2-Methylpropanoic acid a-Methylpropionic acid Isobutyric acid
More Naming Benzoic acid Benzenecarboxylic acid Cyclohexanecarboxylic acid
SYNTHESIS OF CARBOXYLIC ACIDS
Oxidation of Primary Alcohols with KMnO4 twoa-hydrogens + MnO2 precipitate
Oxidation of Primary Alcohols with K2Cr2O7
Oxidation of Side Chains Example D KMnO4
Carbonation of Grignard Reagents ( or Alkyllithium Compounds ) ( R-Li )
Formation of Nitriles and Hydrolysis DMSO H2SO4 H2O SN2 heat
SYNTHESIS OF CARBOXYLIC ACIDS ( DUE TO LACK OF SPACE REACTION CONDITIONS ARE ABBREVIATED) ( benzene = R sidechain = R’ ) KMnO4 KMnO4 KMnO4 CrO3 or KMnO4 H2SO4 CrO3 H2O H2SO4 H2SO4 DIBAL or NaCN acetone Rosenmund CO2 H2O KMnO4 H2SO4 SOCl2 Li or Mg H2O or Chap 19 This is all stuff you know!
Carboxylate Ion Formation They are acids, ya know ! carboxylic acid carboxylate ion pKa»5
Protonation and Deprotonation of a Carboxylic Acid .. + .. .. .. : : .. - .. NaOH H2SO4 .. : .. .. .. : H2SO4 + .. .. : .. equivalent structures due to resonance +
Electron-withdrawing Groups: • strengthen acids • weaken bases • Electron-releasing Groups: • weaken acids • strengthen bases
Substituents with Electron-Withdrawing Resonance ( - R ) Effects X Y -R substituents strengthen acids and weaken bases
.. Y Substituents with Electron-Releasing Resonance ( + R ) Effects hydroxy alkoxy mercapto acyloxy methyl alkyl dialkylamino amino fluoro chloro bromo iodo +R substituents weaken acids and strengthen bases
Substituents with Electron-Withdrawing ( - I ) Inductive Effects X carboxyl cyano alkoxycarbonyl sulfonic acid alkoxy acyl dialkylamino hydroxyl fluoro mercapto bromo amino iodo chloro trimethylammonium nitro -I substituents strengthen acids and weaken bases
Substituents with Electron-Releasing Inductive ( + I ) Effects R methyl alkyl carboxylate oxide +I substituents weaken acids and strengthen bases
increasing acidity
ortho ortho meta meta para para Benzoic Acid: pKa = 4.19
4.08 4.06 4.48 4.46 2.97 Benzoic Acid: pKa = 4.19
Reactions of Carboxylic Acids • Nucleophiles that are also strong bases react with carboxylic acids by removing a proton first, before any nucleophilic substitution reaction can take place.
Nucleophilic acyl substitution reactions of carboxylic acids
Treatment of a carboxylic acid with thionyl chloride (SOCl2) affords an acid chloride. • This is possible because thionyl chloride converts the OH group of the acid into a better leaving group, and because it provides the nucleophile (Cl¯) to displace the leaving group.
Although carboxylic acids cannot readily be converted into anhydrides, dicarboxylic acids can be converted to cyclic anhydrides by heating to high temperatures. • This is a dehydration reaction because a water molecule is lost from the diacid.
Esterification of a carboxylic acid occurs in the presence of acid but not in the presence of base. • Base removes a proton from the carboxylic acid, forming the carboxylate anion, which does not react with an electron-rich nucleophile.
Intramolecular esterification of - and -hydroxyl carboxylic acids forms five- and six-membered lactones.
Carboxylic acids cannot be converted into amides by reaction with NH3 or an amine because amines are bases, and undergo an acid-base reaction to form an ammonium salt before nucleophilic substitution occurs. • However, heating the ammonium salt at high temperature (>100°C) dehydrates the resulting ammonium salt of the carboxylate anion to form an amide, although the yield can be low.
The overall conversion of RCOOH to RCONH2 requires two steps: • [1] Acid-base reaction of RCOOH with NH3 to form an ammonium salt. • [2] Dehydration at high temperature (>100°C).
A carboxylic acid and an amine readily react to form an amide in the presence of an additional reagent, dicyclohexylcarbodimide (DCC), which is converted to the by-product dicyclohexylurea in the course of the reaction.
DCC is a dehydrating agent. • The dicyclohexylurea by-product is formed by adding the elements of H2O to DCC. • DCC promotes amide formation by converting the carboxy group OH group into a better leaving group.