Between floor acetic acid and bromo acetic acid which is more acidic and why
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Acidity of carboxylic acids increases due to presence of electron withdrawing group/atom since the carboxylate ion (RCOO-) gets stabilised by negative inductive effect of Cl which will withdraw the negative charge on oxygen and thereby stabilize the carboxylate ion in chloro acetic acid making it more acidic than
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