Question

why tertiary alcohol is least acidic in nature?

Answer 1

A more stabilised alkoxide is a weaker conjugate base and hence the alcoholwill be more acidic. ... For electronic factors, when there are more electron donating alkyl groups attached to the hydroxyl carbon, the electron density on the O atom increases and the alkoxide is consequently less stable.

Answer 2

Hello buddy

As we know that an electron releasing group increase electron density on oxygen tending to decrease polarity of O H bond which decrease the acidic strength...

Hence tertiary alcohol is less acidic in nature..

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