Alkanoic Acids (Carboxylic Acids) This article on Alkanoic acids describes the preparation of Alkanoic acids. Physical and chemical properties of Alkanoic acids and its uses are also explored. Read ...

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Alkanoic Acids (Carboxylic Acids)
This article on Alkanoic acids describes the preparation of Alkanoic acids. Physical and chemical properties of Alkanoic acids and its uses are also explored. Read on…………………
Introduction
Alkanoic acids are a class of alkanes which are special with additional of OOH. They are organic acids found mostly in fruits and other vegetable. They have all the characteristics of acids. Some of the acids are found in milk especially sour milk.They belong to a homologous series of organic compounds that contains a carboxyl group (COOH) as a functional group which has a formula .They all conform to general formula CnH2n?1COOH where n is 0,1,2,3………
Alkanoic acids are naturally found in fruits such as oranges, lemon and pepper.It is also found in nettle leaves and insects stings such as bees and wasps.
Ethanoic acid is vinegar,Butanoic acid is found in beef fat (butter) ,Hexandioic acid is found in palm oil and olive oil.
Nomenclature
Alkanoic acids are named by replacing e` in alkanes by the suffix –oic.The simplest member of the alkanoic acid series when n=0 is HCOOH (methanoic acid) and when n=1 is CH2COOH (ethanoic acid).