Chemistry, asked by ash3754, 1 year ago

why is the melting point of butanoic acid higher than pentanoic acid

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➡️The presence of dimers increases the strength of the van der Waals dispersion forces, resulting in the high boiling points of carboxylic acids.

➡️Carboxylic acids are weak acids. They partially dissociates into H+ cations and RCOO- anions in neutral aqueous solvents such as water.

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