Nomenclature of Acid Anhydrides
a. Symmetrical acid anhydrides are named by replacing
acid in the name of the corresponding acid with anhydride. Unsymmetrical acid anhydrides are named by first naming each component carboxylic acid alphabetically arranged (without the word acid) followed by spaces and then the word anhydride.
propanoic anhydride
ethanoic propanoic anhydride
· Try to name the following compound…
· Try to draw a structure for the following compound…
1,2-benzenedicarboxylic anhydride
Jb. Common names that you should know are...
acetic anhydride
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succinic anhydride
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