Carboxylic Synonyms

Carboxylic Sentence Examples

• Its methyl derivatives yield the corresponding carboxylic acids when oxidized by potassium permanganate.

• Experience has shown that such mono-derivatives as nitro compounds, sulphonic acids, carboxylic acids, aldehydes, and ketones yield as a general rule chiefly the meta-compounds, and this is independent of the nature of the second group introduced; on the other hand, benzene haloids, amino-, homologous-, and hydroxy-benzenes yield principally a mixture of the orthoand para-compounds.

• Another hexa-substituted benzene compound capable of direct synthesis is mellitic acid or benzene carboxylic acid, C6(000H)6.

• It is probable that tetrahydro acids are first formed, which suffer rearrangement to orthoketone carboxylic acids.

• Potassium persulphate oxidizes it in alkaline solution, the product on boiling with acids giving hydroquiirone carboxylic acid (German Patent 81,297).