Carboxylic Acids are another important organic compound. This is primarily because they give compounds characteristic properties (being that they are weak acids), and they are also important precursors to other useful organic functional groups (amides and esters, especially). For our internal, we are looking to differentiate them from other oxygen-containing compounds such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and esters.
Nomenclature
The carboxylic acid functional group is always on the terminal carbon (the carbon that we number as "1"). We name the compound from that carbon chain length, and any additional functional groups and/or side chains:
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