Exam 21: Carboxylic Acid Derivatives

Phthalic acid produces what acid derivative upon heating?

Provide the major organic product in the reaction shown below.

Propose a synthesis of benzonitrile from benzene and any other necessary reagents.

How could you synthesize 3-phenylpentan-3-ol from benzoic acid?

What reagents are needed to complete the following reaction?

Which of the following structures are carboxylic acid derivatives?

Why are β-lactams, such as penicillins and cephalosporins, unusually reactive amides?

Which of the following statements is/are true?

Predict the major product of the following reaction.

Provide the major organic product in the reaction shown below.

Predict the major product of the following reaction.

Provide the structure of (R)-4-ethoxypentanenitrile.

Provide the major organic product in the reaction shown below.

Provide an arrow pushing mechanism for the following reaction. Show all intermediate structures and formal charges. You do not need to show resonance structures.

Two equivalents of methyl magnesium bromide will add to ________.

Provide the name of the compound shown below.

Acids can be converted to primary amines by ________.

Show how one might synthesize phenylacetone using toluene, NaCN, and any other necessary reagents.

Describe, in short phrases, the three step mechanism by which hexanoyl chloride reacts with dimethylamine.

Which of the following compounds is(are) hydrolyzed to butanoic acid upon heating in