Salicylic acid is a stronger acid than benzoic acid. It is due to the fact that in salicylate ion (conjugate base of salicylic acid) intram...

Due to intramolecular hydrogen bonding of conjugate base of acid give extra stability to the conjugate base hence acidic strength increase f...

Highly branched carboxylic acids are less acidic than unbranched acids. Explain why? Benzamide is less easily hydrolysed than methyl benzoat...

(1)   alcohols fails to turn blue litmus red while phenol do so. (2)  alcohols fails to neutralize alkalies whereas phenols do so: (3)  ...

We know that picric acid is weak acid than expected this is fact that when picric acid releases a proton it becomes an anion for which repul...

Picric acid is weak acid than expected due to the presence of three Nitro groups (show strong -I as well as -M effect); this is fact that  6...

Mostly groups are show Ortho effect, however for groups like  -NH 2  or -OH  does not experience SIR effect due to small size and  –CN  is l...

Ortho substituted Benzoic acid is more acidic then meta or para substituted benzoic acid irrespective of nature of group (electron donating ...

2-Methyl Benzoic acid (or o-toluic acid) is stronger than benzene and it's methyl derivatives because steric inhibition of resonance ( S...

AIcohols and phenols. borh are acidic in nature because they Iiberate H+ with active metals. But alcohols are weaker acids than phenols beca...

Alcohols and phenols both are acidic in nature because they Liberate H2 with active metals. But alcohols are weaker acids than pheno...

We know that N is less electronegative than oxygen therefore. N can donate a pair of electrons more readily than oxygen.  Therefore, magn...

The carboxylate ion of the branched chain acids is shielded from solvent molecules and thus resists for resonance whereas unbranched ...