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This is really easy. You just take the name of the parent acid, and
replace the word "acid" by "anhydride". "Anhydride" simply means
"without water".
So . . . ethanoic acid forms ethanoic anhydride; propanoic acid
forms propanoic anhydride, and so on.
For UK A level purposes, the only one you are at all likely to come
across is ethanoic anhydride.
Appearance
Solubility in water
Boiling point
You have almost certainly come across acid anhydrides for the first
time just after looking at acyl chlorides, or you may be studying
them at the same time as acyl chlorides.
The reactions (of both acyl chlorides and acid anhydrides) involve
things like water, alcohols and phenols, or ammonia and amines.
All of these particular cases contain a very electronegative element
with an active lone pair of electrons - either oxygen or nitrogen.