When a benzoic acid react with sodium hydroxide and calcium oxide what is the product obtain mechanism
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Sodium salts of corboxylic acids on heating with soda lime (mixture of sodium hydroxide and calcium oxide) give
alkanes containing one carbon atom less than the corboxylic acid.This process of elimanation of carbon dioxide
from corboxylic acid is known as decorboxylation.
CH3 COO-Na+ +NaOH ---------------------> CH4 +Na2 CO3
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