Chemistry A-Level
Esterification of amino acids
What Esterification of amino acids means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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With an alcohol and an acid catalyst the carboxylic acid group reacts reversibly to give an ester and water, the ester link forming between the carboxyl carbon and the alcohol oxygen.
Topics that use Esterification of amino acids
- Amino acids, amides and chirality (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Acid–base reaction of the COOH group
- 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
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