What happens on heating of sodium salt of carboxylic acid?
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In this reaction sodium salts of carboxylic acid are heated with soda lime to form alkanes having one carbon atom less than the sodium salt of carboxylic acid. Carboxylate ion is resonance stabilised. In this reaction, carboxylate ion breaks to form carbanion with the evolution of CO₂ gas.
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