Chemistry A-Level
Acid hydrolysis of nitriles
What Acid hydrolysis of nitriles means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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A nitrile group, –C≡N, is converted into a carboxylic acid group, –COOH by heating with dilute aqueous acid, such as dilute hydrochloric or sulfuric acid.
Topics that use Acid hydrolysis of nitriles
- Carbon–carbon bond formation (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Carbon chain extension and carbon counting
- Carbon–carbon bond formation
- Carboxylic acid formation
- Chain lengthening in synthesis
- Friedel–Crafts acylation
- Friedel–Crafts reactions
- Halogen carrier
- Hydrolysis to carboxylic acids
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