The carboxyl functional group is represented as –COOH and is the end product of alcohol oxidation. The term carboxylic acid is little special in the sense that it represents two functional groups; first a carbonyl group and second hydroxyl group. One can say that in the carboxyl group a hydroxyl group is bonded to a carbonyl (>C = O) group. It is often represented as CO2H or COOH. Carboxylic ac...

Cations of the alkali earth group have strong tendencies to form partially dissociated complexes in solution with the anions of carboxylic acids and other weak acids. The affinity of this association tends to increase with the number of carboxylic acid groups of the acid anion. In a considerable number of cases the effect has been studied quantitatively and expressed in terms of well defined di...

A new approach to the selective comparative metabolite profiling of carboxylic acids in rat urine was established using CE-MS and a method for positively pre-charged and (2)H-coded derivatization. Novel derivatizing reagents, N-alkyl-4-aminomethyl-pyridinum iodide (alkyl = butyl, butyl-d9 or hexyl), containing quaternary amine and stable-isotope atoms (deuterium), were introduced for the deriva...