Carboxylic acids and derivatives — AS & A Level Chemistry 9701

Carboxylic acids and derivatives — AS & A Level Chemistry 9701: 3 chapters and 159 lesson cards — AI teacher explanations, worked examples, diagrams, common mistakes and exam-style questions, aligned to the Cambridge AS & A Level Chemistry 9701 syllabus.

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1. Carboxylic acids — Introduction · Key ideas — Benzoic acid from an alkylbenzene · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Forming acyl chlorides with phosphorus and sulfur chlorides · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Further oxidation of methanoic and ethanedioic acid · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Relative acidities of carboxylic acids, phenols and alcohols · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Relative acidities of chlorine-substituted carboxylic acids · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Worked example · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · Common mistakes · Practice
2. Esters — Introduction · Key ideas — Ester formation from an alcohol and an acyl chloride · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Comparing the two routes to an ester · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Why acyl chlorides are more reactive towards nucleophiles · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Preparing a phenyl ester · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Worked example · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · Common mistakes · Practice
3. Acyl chlorides — Introduction · Key ideas — Producing acyl chlorides from carboxylic acids · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Hydrolysis of acyl chlorides · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Reactions with alcohols, phenols, ammonia and amines · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — The addition-elimination mechanism · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Relative ease of hydrolysis: acyl chlorides, alkyl chlorides and halogenoarenes · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Worked example · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · Common mistakes · Practice