Aldehydes, Carboxylic Acids

In Today's class we learned about Aldehydes and Carboxylic Acids. Aldehydes are basically a double bonded oxygen at the end of a chain and Carboxylic Acids are formed the with a double bonded oxygen and an alchohol on the same carbon.

 Aldehydes:

• Double bonded oxygen at the end of a chain
• Follow the standard naming rules and change the parent chain ending to AL.

(be careful when naming aldehydes and alchohols.)

(Formaldehyde)

(ethanal)

(2 bromo heptanal)

e.g. 

Carboxylic Acids:

• Follow standard naming rules but change the parent chain ending to -oic acid

(Methanoic Acid)

(Trichloro methanoic acid)

(4 methylbenzoic acid)