How many moles of sodium hydroxide will react with one mole of the given compound?

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Solution

The correct option is A $1$
NaOH reacts with carboxylic acid to form Na salt of a carboxylate.
The given compound has only one -COOH group.
Hence it requires only 1 mole of NaOH.

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