Carboxylic Acids and their Derivatives - Result Question 45
####31. The total number of carboxylic acid groups in the product $P$ is
(2013 Adv.)
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Solution:
- PLAN eactant is cyclic anhydride and chan es to dicarboxylic acid on hydrolysis.
Also there is decarboxylation on heating if there is keto group w.r.t $-COOH$ group. Ozonolysis cleaves $(C=C)$ bond and $H _2 O _2$ oxidises - $CHO$ to $-COOH$ group.
Anhydride
Thus, number of $-COOH$ groups in $P=2$.
