Jerry March
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Professor of Chemistry, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, 1968β97. Author of Advanced Organic Chemistry and others.
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Carboxylic acid, any of a class of organic compounds in which a carbon (C) atom is bonded to an oxygen (O) atom by a double bond and to a hydroxyl group (βOH) by a single bond. A fourth bond links the carbon atom to a hydrogen (H) atom or to some other univalent combining group. The carboxyl (COOH)β¦
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