Chapter 20 Learning Objectives:

1. Be able to define:  carboxylic acid, carboxylic ion, ester, Fischer esterification, carboxylate salt, acid chloride, acid anhydride.
2. Be able to name a given carboxylic acid using the IUPAC system of nomenclature.
3. Be able to draw the structure of a carboxylic acid given the IUPAC name.
4. Know the reactions that can be used to prepare carboxylic acids.
5. Know the conditions for and be able to predict the products of a reduction of a carboxylic acid.
6. Know the conditions, be able to write a mechanism, and predict the products of a Fischer Esterification.
7. Know the conditions, be able to write a mechanism, and predict the products of acid halide formation from a carboxylic acid.
8. Know the conditions, be able to write a mechanism, and predict the products of acid anhydride formation from a carboxylic acid.
9. Know the conditions, be able to write a mechanism, and predict the products of amide formation from a carboxylic acid.
10. Be able to draw the synthetic steps necessary to synthesize a target molecule from one or more given starting compounds.