Question
What functional group(s) is(are) in 4-hydroxoybenzoic acid?
My Answer: Would it be carboxylic acid and an ester?
My Answer: Would it be carboxylic acid and an ester?
Answers
DrBob222
Carboxylic acid is correct.
The OH group is a phenol group (an alcohol on R group but phenol group when attached to an aromatic ring (AR).
The OH group is a phenol group (an alcohol on R group but phenol group when attached to an aromatic ring (AR).
Anonymous
So it isn't an ester? It is just a carboxylic acid? I'm just confused with the naming because of the hydroxy