Organic Chemistry

Chapter 8: Carboxylic Acids

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The ____ form.

When long-chain carboxylic acids react with sodium or potassium hydroxide, a ____ is formed.

When ____, a salt is formed.

Soaps can solvate nonpolar organic compounds in aqueous solutions because they contain both a ____ head.

Soaps can solvate ____ solutions because they contain both a nonpolar tail and a polar carboxylate head.

When placed in aqueous solution, soap molecules arrange themselves into spherical structures called ____ .

In a micelle, the polar heads face ____.

In a micelle, the nonpolar hydrocarbon chains are oriented toward the ____.

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