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Functional Derivatives of Carboxylic Acids
Derivatives of Carboxylic Acids are compounds in which the OH of a carboxyl group has been
replaced by CI, OOCR, NH2 , or OR'to convert acid chlorides ,anhydrides, amides, and esters .
Like the acid to which it is related, an acid derivative may be aliphatic or aromatic, substituted
or unsubstituted; whatever the structure of the rest of the molecule, the properties of the
functional group remain essentially the same.
Nomenclature The names of acid derivatives are taken in simple ways from either the
common name or the IUPAC name of the corresponding carboxylic acid. For
example:
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Physical properties
1- The presence of the C= O group makes the acid derivatives polar compounds.
2- Acid chlorides and anhydrides and esters have boiling points that are about the same as
those of aldehydes or ketones of comparable molecular weight
3- Amides have quite high boiling points because they are capable of strong
intermolecular hydrogen bonding
-4 The border line for solubility in water ranges from three to five carbons for the esters to five
or six carbons for the amides. The acid derivatives are soluble in the usual organic solvents.
-5 Volatile esters have pleasant, rather characteristic odors; they are often used in the preparation
of perfumes and artificial flavorings. Acid chlorides have sharp, irritating odors, at least partly
due to their ready hydrolysis to HC1 and carboxylie acids
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Nucleophilic acyl substitution. Role of the carbonyl group
Acyl compounds carboxylic acids and their derivatives typically undergo nucleophilic
substitution in which -OH, -Cl, OOCR, NH2 or -OR' is replaced by some other basic group.
Substitution takes place much more readily than at a saturated carbon atom; indeed, many of
these substitutions do not usually take place at all in the absence of the carbonyl group, as, for
example, replacement
of-NH2 by-OH.
Carbonyl carbon is joined to three other atoms by a bonds; since these bonds utilize sp2 orbitals,
they lie in a plane and are 120 apart. The remaining p orbital of the carbon overlaps a p orbital
of oxygen to form a TT bond; carbon and oxygen are thus joined by a double bond. The part of
the molecule immediately
surrounding carbonyl carbon Is flat', oxygen, carbonyl carbon, and the two atoms directly
attached to carbonyl carbon He in a plane
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Nucleophilic substitution: alkyl vs. acyl nucieophilic substitution takes place much more readily at an acyl carbon than at saturated
carbon. Thus, toward nucleophilic attack acid chlorides are more reactive than alkyl chlorides,
amides are more reactive than amines (RNH2), and esters are more reactive than ethers
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the carbonyl group that makes acyl compounds more reactive than alkyl compounds.
Nucleophilic attack (SN 2)on a tetrahedral alkyl carbon involves a badly crowded transition state
containing pentavalent carbon; a bond must be partly broken to permit the attachment of the
nucleophile:
Nucleophilic attack on a flat acyl compound involves a relatively unhindered
transition state leading to a tetrahedral intermediate that is actually a compound; since the
carbonyl group is unsaturated, attachment of the nucleophile requires breaking only of the weak
Π ond, and places a negative charge on an atom quite
willing to accept it; oxygen.
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ACID CHLORIDES Preparation of acid chlorides
Acid chlorides are prepared from the corresponding acids by reaction with hionyl chloride,
phosphorus trichloride, or hosphorus pentachloride,
REACTIONS OF ACID CHLORIDES
1. Conversion into acids and derivatives
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2. Formation of ketones. Friedel-Crafts acylation
3. Formation of ketones. Reaction with organocadmium compounds
4. Formation of aldehydes by reduction
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ACID ANHYDRIDES
Preparation of acid anhydrides
It is prepared by the reaction of cetic acid with ketene, CH2=C=O hich itself is prepared by
high-temperature ehydration of acetic acid.
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Reactions of acid anhydrides
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AMIDES
Preparation of amides
Reactions of amides
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It involves nucleophilic substitution, in which the NH2 group is replaced by H. Under acidic
conditions hydrolysis involves attack by water on the protonated amide
Under alkaline conditions hydrolysis involves attack by the strongly nucleophilic ydroxide ion
on the amide itself:
Imides Like other anhydrides, cyclic anhydrides react with ammonia to yield amides; inthis case the
product contains both CONH2 and COOH groups. If thisacid-amide is heated, a molecule of
water is lost, a ring forms, and a product isobtained in which two acyl groups have become
attached to nitrogen; compoundsof this sort are called imides. Phthalic anhydride gives
phthalamic acid and
phthalimide:
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ESTERS PREPARATION OF ESTERS
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Reactions of esters
Esters undergo the nucleophilic substitution that is typical of carboxylic acidderivatives. Attack
occurs at the electron-deficient carbonyl carbon, and resultsin the replacement of the OR' group
by OH, OR*, or NH2 :
REACTIONS OF ESTERS
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Acidic hydrolysis of esters
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