Page 2 - LN
P. 2
Carboxylic acid is one such carbonyl-based functional group.
When a carbonyl carbon [-C=O]is bonded on one side to a carbon (or hydrogen) and
on the other side to an Hydroxyl group [-OH], the functional group is considered to be
an ‘Carboxylic acid ’ [R/H-COOH]
Examples of Carboxylic acid[R/H-COOH]-
2