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Okay, so both alcohols and carboxylic acids undergo substitution reactions.
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But the way they do them is just a little different.
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Let's say, for example, we have just this kind of ubiquitous thing, x that's being substituted onto both of these, right? so the way x would substitute onto the alcohol is it would attack this.
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I'm sorry, you would typically add some sort of acid, right? and the reason you would do that is to make this protonated, right? and that then becomes a pretty good leaving group.
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Then when this attacks, i'll always do that in red, water would leave, and you would get our x and water.
00:53
Okay, so if i were to do the same type of substitution with a carbicic acid, it would be a little different, right? so let's say i have x...