What Is The Preparation Of A Carboxylic Acid

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Slide 1: Aromatic acids
Learning Objectives

At the end of this class session, you will be able to know about
• Preparation and properties of aromatic acids
Slide 2: Introduction
Aromatic carboxylic acids belong to the group of carboxylic acids. Aromatic acids are white crystalline solids that are soluble in hot water, alcohol and ether. It is partially soluble in cold water.
Slide 3: Explanation
Preparation of aromatic acids
Teacher: Hi, students. Today we are going to learn about the preparation of aromatic acids.
Aromatic carboxylic acid is a group of carboxylic acid linked directly to the benzene ring. Benzoic acid is the simplest aromatic acid.
Oxidation of side-chain of benzene derivatives produces aromatic acids. Acid …show more content…

Teacher: C6H5MgBr is the formula of Grignard reagent.
Let us see an animation regarding this.
Animation_1_ Preparation of aromatic acids
A carboxylic acid group directly linked to the benzene ring is termed as Aromatic carboxylic acids.
Following figure shows some of the examples of aromatic acids:
Among all the aromatic acids, benzoic acid is the simplest aromatic acid.
Preparation of aromatic acids:
1) By oxidation: Aromatic acids can be obtained by the oxidation of ‘side chain’ of benzene derivatives.
Side chain can be any aliphatic portion linked to benzene ring.
For the process of oxidization of the ‘side chain’, acid dichromate or permanganate or alkaline, permanganate etc., can be used.
Following figure shows the side chains used during oxidization to obtain aromatic acids:
In the process of oxidization of Toluene, acidified KMnO4 is used.
Following reactions show the process of oxidization of Toluene by acidified KMnO4:
2) Hydrolysis of phenyl cyanide:
Following figure shows the procedure to obtain aromatic acid by hydrolysis of phenyl cyanide:
3) Carbonation of Grignard reagent followed by hydrolysis:
Following figure shows the process of carbonation of Grignard reagent followed by

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