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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Why is acetic acid stronger than phenol?

Acetic acid furnished acetate ion by removal of  H+ which is more resonance stablised because in resonating structure of acetate ion, negative charge equilly distributed on both oxygen atom ,
While in phenoxide ion oxygen atom required partial positve charge which relatively destabilize.

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