Question

Why carboxylic acid has higher boiling point than alcohol,aldehyde and ketone?

Answer 1

The boiling points of carboxylic acids increases as the molecules get bigger. Carboxylic acids have even higher boiling points then alkanes and alcohols. Carboxylic acids, similar to alcohols, can form hydrogen bonds with each other as well as van der Waals dispersion forces and dipole-dipole interactions.

Answer 2

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Both alcohols and acids involve intermolecular hydrogen bonding. But no intermolecular H - bonding occur in aldehydes and ketones.

Therefore, attractive forces in aldehydes and ketones are lesser/weaker than acids and alcohols. Hence, lesser energy is required to break the attractive forces in aldehydes and ketones and thus they have low boiling points(low boiling point = less energy to break the attractive forces) or in other words, carboxylic acid has higher boiling point than aldehydes and ketones.