Carboxylate salt formation
What Carboxylate salt formation means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Neutralisation of the COOH group by an alkali produces a carboxylate salt and water, as in the balanced equation with sodium hydroxide.
The salt is named from the metal cation and the carboxylate anion, formed when the acid reacts with a base.
Topics that use Carboxylate salt formation
- Amino acids, amides and chirality (OCR A-Level)
- Carboxylic acids and esters (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Acid-catalysed hydrolysis
- Acid–base behaviour of products
- Acid–base reaction of the COOH group
- Acyl chlorides as reactive acid derivatives
- Amide and ester formation
- Bifunctional nature of amino acids
- Brønsted–Lowry base
- By-products sulfur dioxide and hydrogen chloride
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