Acylation activity of hydroxyl groups in methyl cholicate has been determined by the use of methacryloyl chloride, methacryloyl anhydride and methacrylic acid as the acylating agents.
Carboxylic acids are a type of organic compound characterized by a carbon (C) atom doubly bonded to an oxygen (O) atom and singly bonded to a hydroxyl group (-OH) .
Beta hydroxybutyric acid on the other hand, even though it's still one of the ketone bodies, isn't technically a ketoacid since its ketone group has been reduced to a hydroxyl group.
If you were paying attention, you learned that alcohols are organic compounds with hydroxyl groups, if you dehydrogenate them, the hydroxyl converts to a carbonyl and they become dehydrogenated alcohols or aldehydes.
Technically speaking, an alcohol is any compound that contains a hydrogen-oxygen pair, known as a hydroxyl group, that's bound to an atom of carbon that's saturated, meaning all of its electrons are bound to something else.
It replaced one of salicylic acid's hydroxyl group — that's an oxygen and hydrogen bonded to a carbon — with an acetyl group, which is two carbons, one double-bonded to an oxygen and the other bonded to three hydrogens.
If it's a six carbon chain with a carboxylic acid on it and an alcohol on one of the other carbons, our name has to do two things: identify that the hydroxyl group is there and identify where it is.