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    This document describes an experiment involving carboxylic acids and their derivatives. Key steps include: 1) Writing structural formulas for acetic acid and benzoic acid and testing their solubility and pH. Heating benzoic acid increases its solubility. 2) Adding sodium hydroxide to the acids forms sodium salts, which are identified through reactions and observations. 3) Adding hydrochloric acid neutralizes the sodium salts formed. The experiment also involves preparing and identifying esters and amides through hydrolysis reactions and observation of physical properties.

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    This document describes an experiment involving carboxylic acids and their derivatives. Key steps include: 1) Writing structural formulas for acetic acid and benzoic acid and testing their solubility and pH. Heating benzoic acid increases its solubility. 2) Adding sodium hydroxide to the acids forms sodium salts, which are identified through reactions and observations. 3) Adding hydrochloric acid neutralizes the sodium salts formed. The experiment also involves preparing and identifying esters and amides through hydrolysis reactions and observation of physical properties.

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    This document describes an experiment involving carboxylic acids and their derivatives. Key steps include: 1) Writing structural formulas for acetic acid and benzoic acid and testing their solubility and pH. Heating benzoic acid increases its solubility. 2) Adding sodium hydroxide to the acids forms sodium salts, which are identified through reactions and observations. 3) Adding hydrochloric acid neutralizes the sodium salts formed. The experiment also involves preparing and identifying esters and amides through hydrolysis reactions and observation of physical properties.

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    Carboxylic Acids and Their Salts

    Carboxylic acids contain one or more carboxyl functional groups (-COOH).


    The carboxyl functional group is polar, both at the carbonyl part and at the hydroxyl part because of
    the difference in electronegativity value of carbon - oxygen, and oxygen - hydrogen. Thus carboxylic
    acids form hydrogen bond with themselves and any other appropriate polar molecule, and this
    structure will influence their physical properties and their chemical properties.

    Carboxylic acids are an important class of organic compounds. Other important classes of
    compounds called acid derivatives are related to acids but differ from them in that the hydroxyl
    portion of the carboxyl function is replaced by other groups.

    Aim: Study the Carboxylic acids and their derivatives with one or more carbonyl groups. Reactions
    such as formation and hydrolysis of carboxylic salts and esterification. This experiment will illustrate
    some of the more important reactions of carboxylic acids and their derivatives

    Materials: Test tubes, glacial acetic acid, benzoic acid(s), Sodium acetate, dropper, spatula, pH
    paper, red and blue litmus paper, stirring rod, 400-mL beaker, hot plate or Bunsen burner, 10%
    NaOH, 10% HCl

    Procedure

    1. Write the structural formulas for acetic acid and benzoic acid.
    2. Place about 2 mL of water in two test tubes. Add 5 drops of acetic acid to one test tube
    and a small amount of benzoic solid (enough to cover the tip of a spatula) to the other.
    Tap the sides of the test tubes to mix or stir with a stirring rod. Identify the acid that
    dissolves.
    3. Test the pH of each carboxylic acid by dipping a stirring rod into the solution, then
    touching it to a piece of pH paper. Compare the color on the paper with the color chart on
    the container and report the pH.
    4. Place the test tube of benzoic acid (solid should be present) in a hot water bath and heat
    for 5 minutes.
    5. Describe the effect of heating on the solubility of acid. Allow the test tube to cool.
    Record your observations.
    6. Add about 10 drops of NaOH to each test tube until a drop of the solution turns red litmus
    paper blue. Record your observations. Write the equations for the reactions with NaOH
    including the structures of the sodium salts formed.
    7. Add about 10 drops of HCl to each sample until it is neutralized (blue litmus paper turns
    red).Record your observations. Write equations for the reactions of the sodium salts that
    formed.
    Part A- Carboxylic Acid Salts.

    I. Salt Formation

    In each of two test tubes, place 0.1 g of benzoic acid. To one tube, add 3 ml of cold
    water, to the other, add 3 ml of 10% sodium hydroxide solution. Shake both tubes,
    observe, record the result, and write a complete reaction.

    II. Salt Hydrolysis

    This hydrolysis can be demonstrated by testing the salt solution with litmus paper.
    Dissolve approximately 0.2 g of sodium acetate in 5 ml of distilled water. Test the
    resulting solution with litmus paper, and note the results. Wash the aqueous solution
    down the sink with plenty of water. Record the result, and write a complete reaction..

    PART B. Esters - Preparation of Methyl Salicylate (Oil of Wintergreen)

    I. Dissolve 0.5 g of salicylic acid in 5 ml of methanol in a small beaker. Cautiously,


    and with constant stirring, add 10 drops of concentrated sulfuric acid to the
    mixture. Heat the mixture on the steam bath for 10 min, then pour it over about 10
    g of ice in a small beaker. Stir well and cautiously observe the odor of the product
    by gently wafting the vapors toward your nose. Record the result, and write a
    complete reaction..
    II. Add drop-by-drop 1 ml (~ 20 drops) of acetyl chloride to 1 ml of butanol. Allow
    to stand for about 2 minutes and then pour carefully into 5 ml of water (acetyl
    chloride reacts vigorously with water). Note the odor of solution by wafting the
    smell toward your nose. Remove a little of the insoluble layer with a dropper and
    test its solubility in 5% NaOH solution.

    PART C. Amides: Hydrolysis of an Amide

    Add 0.5 g of acetamide to 5 ml of 10% sodium hydroxide solution in a test tube, and
    gently warm the solution, and heat the mixture to boiling. Note the odor of the evolved
    gas by gently wafting its vapors toward your nose. Test the gas by holding a piece of
    moist red litmus paper in the mouth of the tube. Repeat the experiment with 0.5 g of
    acetamide and 5 ml of 10% sulfuric acid. Record the result, and write a complete
    reaction(s).

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