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n. -The univalent radical -COOH characteristic of the largest class of organic acids including formic, acetic, and benzoic acids

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  • BTW, the system is not awfully wrong: the negative charge on the acidic carboxyl groups is to be expected.
  • Most of the molecule is soluble in fat. whereas the carboxyl group and its attached compound is soluble in water.
  • The substitution takes place, however, almost entirely in the meta position, if a nitro, carboxyl, or aldehyde group be present.
  • Many of the compounds in asphalt are polar since they contain alcohol, carboxyl, phenolic, amine, thiol, and other functional groups.
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