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indiachinacook
11 months ago

Acid-base reactions in aqueous solution are much more important for inorganic chemistry than for organic, because there is hardly anything in aqueous solution. Thus, such stuff as buffer or salt formation hardly occurs in organic chemistry.

Nevertheless, organic chemistry is absolutely full of reactions between acids and bases. However, the oraganists have a somewhat different perspective: their bases (e.g. carbanions) are called Nucleophilesand their acids (e.g. carbenium ions) Electrophile. Although the principles are similar, the details differ enormously because of the many solvents — water plays a minor role, and therefore H3O+ and OH ̄ rarely have an appearance (e.g. ester hydrolysis).

Sopcila
11 months ago

Acid-base reactions are present in both fields of chemistry, but occur more frequently and more fundamentally in inorganic chemistry. In organic chemistry, they are more specific and relate to functional groups such as carboxylic acids and amines.