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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Occurrence and uses
- Formation
- Structure and bonding
- Reactions
- Lewis basicity
- Deprotonation
- Nucleophilic substitution
- Reduction
- Examples
- References
thumb|155px|Carboxylate ion
In chemistry, a carboxylate is an anion with the general formula (or ). Carboxylate salts are salts that have the general formula {{chem2|M(RCOO)_{n} }}, where M is a metal and n is 1, 2,.... Carboxylate esters have the general formula (also written as ), where R and R′ are organic groups.
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