Is Carbonic Acid Classified as a Carboxylic Acid?
I know that it is considered an inorganic compound for some reason, but the structure seems to suggest it is a carboxylic acid when drawn out on paper. The only reason I imagine it would not be is the resonance forms summing into a final form with different bond lengths from the typical carboxylic acid functional group carbon-oxygen bonds. Do you know the answer?
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carboxyl acids have a COOH, carbonic acid does not - no it is not a carboxyllic aicd
Carbonic acid dissociates into H^+ and the anions HCO3^- or CO3^2-
Carboxylic acids have anions --CO2^-
I cannot see much similarity here.
No, It doesnt have the funtional group COOH.