13. Benzoic acid reacts with sodium bicarbonate to give CO2 but phenols do not. Justify the statement.
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Phenol does not decompose NaHCO3 to evolve CO2 but picric acid does. Phenol is a weak acid. Hence, it does not react with sodium hydrogen carbonate. However picric acid has more acid strength than phenol due to presence of three strongly electron withdrawing nitro groups.
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