{"id":93,"date":"2012-09-21T00:16:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T00:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2014-02-21T03:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T03:22:24","slug":"acid-base-organic-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/acid-base-organic-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Acid-Base Organic Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"

The acid-base properties of organic compounds are of utmost importance as they can provide critical information regarding the reactivity of a given compound.<\/p>\n

Organic compounds can be defined in a number of different ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nAcid<\/strong><\/td>\nBase<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arrhenius<\/strong><\/td>\nDissociation in water yields H+<\/sup><\/td>\nDissociation in water yields–<\/sup>OH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bronstead-Lowry<\/strong><\/td>\nProton (H+<\/sup>) donor<\/td>\nProton (H+<\/sup>) acceptor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lewis<\/strong><\/td>\nElectrophile (a compound that accepts electrons)<\/td>\nNucleophile (a compound that donates electrons)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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After determining whether the compound is an acid as opposed to a base, one can look at the pKa to determine its strength. The lower the pKa, the stronger the acid. Also, the more readily a compound can donate a proton, the more acidic it is. Certain functional groups are more acidic than others (such as carboxylic acids and phenols). The more stable a molecule is without a proton, the more easily it will give it up and become deprotanated. On the other hand, the more readily a compound donates electrons the more basic it is. These acid-base properties all play an important role in the reactivity of organic compounds.<\/p>\n

For more information regarding Acid-Base Organic Chemistry- check out Part Seven of the StudyOrgo.com<\/a> Summary Guide<\/a>. To practice what you learned, test your knowledge with the Part Seven Exercise Set<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The acid-base properties of organic compounds are of utmost importance as they can provide critical information regarding the reactivity of a given compound. Organic compounds can be defined in a number of different ways: Acid Base Arrhenius Dissociation in water yields H+ Dissociation in water yields–OH Bronstead-Lowry Proton (H+) donor Proton (H+) acceptor Lewis Electrophile […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organic-chemistry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studyorgo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}