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Offline young youth

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carboxylic acids
« on: May 18, 2010, 02:22:29 PM »
hi.
i know that carboxylic acids are cooh but i can only find info out about when they are in compounds and i was wondering if they are ever foung on their own and if they have any particuler properties
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Re: carboxylic acids
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2010, 02:44:40 PM »
It is not "cooh" but R-COOH. In SMILES notation it is -C(=O)OH - carbon has to be attached to something to have all four valences used.
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