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Class 12 Chemistry Carboxylic Acid Notes

Syllabus:

1. Aliphatic and aromatic carboxylic acids
   1. Introduction, nomenclature, and isomerism
   2. Preparation of monocarboxylic acids from: aldehydes, nitriles, dicarboxylic acid, sodium alkoxide, and trihaloalkanes
   3. Preparation of benzoic acid from alkyl benzene
   4. Physical properties of monocarboxylic acids
   5. Chemical properties: Action with alkalies, metal oxides, metal carbonates, metal bicarbonates, PCl3, LiAlH4, and dehydration of carboxylic acid
   6. Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction
   7. Electrophilic substitution reaction of benzoic acid - bromination, nitration, and sulphonation
   8. Effect of constituents on the acidic strength of carboxylic acid
   9. Abnormal behaviour of methanoic acid
2. Derivatives of Carboxylic acids (acid halides, amides, esters, and anhydrides)
   1. Preparation of acid derivatives from carboxylic acid
   2. Comparative physical properties of acid derivatives
   3. Comparative chemical properties of acid derivatives (hydrolysis, ammonolysis, amines (RNH2), alcoholysis, and reduction only)
   4. Claisen condensation
   5. Hofmann bromamide reaction
   6. Amphoteric nature of amide
   7. Relative reactivity of acid derivatives

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