Carboxylic carbon is less electrophillic than carbonyl carbon
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The carbonyl carbon is also electron withdrawing since it is so close to the highly electronegative oxygen. ... For example, the carbonyl carbon of a carboxylic acid will not be aselectrophilic as a carbonyl carbon of a ketone because of resonance stabilization.
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