30 Mar
2012
30 Mar
'12
11:21 a.m.
-COOH is an organic acid. COOH is formic acid;
Well, HCOOH; if you're going to write the one H you really should write
the other.
CH3COOH is acetic acid
Indeed it is. The series goes on, of course, though the names are
irregular up to higher sizes than most carbon-chain series: formic,
acetic, propionic, butyric, valeric, caproic, enanthic, caprylic,
pelargonic, capric, undecylic, lauric, tridecylic, myristic,
pentadecanoic, palmitic, margaric, stearic, arachidic....
and C00h is 3072.
There is that. :)
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