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why alcohol s are less acidic than water, phenol,and carboxylic acid?
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Phenol is more acidic than cyclohexanol and acyclic alcohols because the phenoxide ion is more stable than the alkoxide ion. ... In contrast to organic acids such as carboxylic acids (pKa = 5) phenols react with aqueous sodium bicarbonate to form carbon dioxide gas and a carboxylate anion.
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in case of phenols, negative charge is less effectively delocalized over one oxygen atom and less electronegative carbon atoms in phenoxide ion. Therefore, the carboxylate ion exhibits higher stability in comparison to phenoxide ion. Hence, the alcohols are less acidic than phenol and carboxylic acid......
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