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(a) Give IUPAC name of Salicylic acid.

(b) Chloroacetic acid is more acidic than acetic acid. Why?

(c) Write the products formed when (CH_{3})_{3}C-CHO reacts with the following:

      (i) Zinc amalgam and dilute hydrolic acid

      (ii) Concentrated sodium hydroxide solution

       (iii) Semicarbazide and weak acid

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

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(a) IUPAC name of Salicyclic acid is 2 -hydroxybenzoic acid.

       

(b) Due to -I effect of chlorine, it increases the partial positive charge on carbon and hence stability the carboxylate ion and thus it increases the acidity of carboxylic acid.

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