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Since carboxylic acids can form hydrogen bonds to create dimers, they have higher boiling points than alcohols and other carbonyl compounds.

a. True
b. False

Sagot :

Answer:

True

Explanation:

The arrangement of three groups COOH, CO, OH in the order of reducing boiling point is as follow -

 COOH > OH > CO

COOH gets strongly polarised due to the presence of electron withdrawing carboxy group and hence have strong H+ bonds as compared to that of alcohol.

Hence the given statement is true.