What is the structure of a carboxyl group?

Answer 1

carbon hydrogen and oxygen. You need one carbon 2 oxygen's and one hydrogen . What makes it a carboxyl group is the bonds and the way it arranges itself in space, which makes it very active . Below is an example: carboxy groups tend to be added to VW carbon chains to make acids . I drew CH3CH2CH2CH2COOH (valeric acid) aka named pentanoic acid Notice it has 5 carbons and the oic means it has a carboxyl group on its end acting like an acid

which means it can lose things like the hydrogen and become COO-

This is a very important reaction in the human body called the buffer system. Carboxyl groups are part of the Protein Buffer system (blood is a protein !) see http://faculty.stcc.edu/AandP/AP/AP2pages/Units21to23/ph/buffers.htm

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H-C-H

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C=O this is the carboxyl end

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O-H good luck!

Answer 2

A carboxyl group is a set of four atoms bonded together and present in carboxylic acids, including amino acids. Usually abbreviated as either CO2H or COOH, this set of atoms constitutes a functional group. In every carboxyl group the carbon atom is attached to an oxygen atom by a double bond and to a hydroxyl group (OH) by a single bond. In this way a carboxyl group is equivalent to a carbonyl group bonded to a hydroxyl group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxyl_group

Answer 3

A carboxylic acid is a functional group which is a group of atoms that share certain characteristics or behaviors in molecules.

They way to identify a compound with a carboxylic acid is to look for a Carbon atom double bonded to an Oxygen atom and single bonded to an OH.

Its looks like:

The R is just representative of the rest of the chain.

Answer 4

its made up of 1 hydrogen 2 oxygen and 1 carbon it look like -COOH

Answer 5

COOH