Explain why ortho hydro oxybenzoic acid has lower melting point than para hydroxybenzoic acid
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The reason behind this is that As per the literature at 760mm of mercury, p-hydroxy benzoic acid has lower boiling point than o-hydroxy benzoic acid .Hope this would be helpful.
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The reason is the ortho effect in Benzoic acid. Due to presence of functional group at ortho position, the carboxylic group and functional group are not in a single plane. Thus the resonance will not take place. And the ortho substitutedbenzoic acid would be more acidic than para substituted.
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