Chemistry A-Level
Amide and ester formation
What Amide and ester formation means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The carboxylic acid group reacts with alcohols in esterification and with amines to form amides, and the amine group reacts with acyl chlorides to form amides.
Topics that use Amide and ester formation
- Amino acids, amides and chirality (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Acid–base reaction of the COOH group
- 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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