Introduction to Carboxylic acid

Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids         Organic compounds having carboxyl (—COOH) functional group with acidic property are carboxylic acids.Example: CH3COOH (acetic acid)  HOOC—CH2—C(OH)(COOH)—CH2—COOH...

Nomenclature of carboxylic acids

Nomenclature of carboxylic acidCarboxylic acids are named according to following systems: 1. Common System: Common name of carboxylic acids are given on the basic of the source from which they are...

Organic chemistry tricks

Tricks for Conversions in Organic Chemistry✅Haloalkanes can give you every possible functional group. They can also help you in increasing the chain size. So you might want to convert your starting...

Lipids

Lipids are the the esters of fatty acids and glycerol made of C, H and O. However, the number of of oxygen is less as compared to carbohydrate.They are insoluble in water but soluble in organic sol...

Macronutrients

Introduction :  Firstly, nutrition is the process of obtaining food necessary for every biological process. The food  which is in taken is called nutrients . This can be obtained  from others(het...

Carboxylic Acids: Properties