Esters

Esters.

Closely related to the carboxylic acids, there are several chemical families known as functional derivatives of carboxylic acids: the acid chlorides, anhydrides, amides and esters.

   The derivatives are compounds in which the –OH of a carboxylic group is replace by –CI, -OOCR, -NH2 and in the esters case is -OR’

All of them contain the acyl group

    And substituting, the general formula of the esters is: