What’s on the Carboxylic Acids poster
A 6-row table: With · Gives.
The main reactions.
- Metal — Salt + hydrogen
- Carbonate — Salt + CO₂ + water — effervescence
- Alcohol + acid catalyst — Ester + water
- PCl₅ — Acyl chloride
- LiAlH₄ — Primary alcohol
- Base — Salt + water
Effervescence with sodium carbonate distinguishes a carboxylic acid from a phenol, which is not acidic enough to react.
Questions about the Carboxylic Acids poster
- What’s on the Carboxylic Acids poster?
- A 6-row table: With · Gives. The main reactions. Metal — Salt + hydrogen; Carbonate — Salt + CO₂ + water — effervescence; Alcohol + acid catalyst — Ester + water; PCl₅ — Acyl chloride; LiAlH₄ — Primary alcohol; Base — Salt + water. Effervescence with sodium carbonate distinguishes a carboxylic acid from a phenol, which is not acidic enough to react.
- Who is the Carboxylic Acids poster for?
- Carboxylic Acids belongs to the Chemistry section rather than to a school year, because physical science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning organic can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Carboxylic Acids poster?
- The carboxylate ion is stabilised by delocalisation, so the proton leaves more readily. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Carboxylic Acids belongs on the wall where that physical science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Carboxylic Acids?
- Esters, Alcohols and Alkanes sit alongside Carboxylic Acids in the Chemistry section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.EstersAlcoholsAlkanes
- Is the Carboxylic Acids poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Carboxylic Acids downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Chemistry section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Carboxylic Acids poster print at?
- Carboxylic Acids is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Carboxylic Acids loses nothing.Printing guide
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