Chemistry A-Level
Acid–base reaction of the COOH group
What Acid–base reaction of the COOH group means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The carboxylic acid group of an amino acid reacts with an alkali such as sodium hydroxide to be neutralised, giving a carboxylate salt and water.
Topics that use Acid–base reaction of the COOH group
- Amino acids, amides and chirality (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Amide and ester formation
- Bifunctional nature of amino acids
- Brønsted–Lowry base
- Carboxylate salt formation
- chirality
- Counting groups bonded to nitrogen
- Delocalisation and reduced basicity of the amide nitrogen
- enantiomers
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