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Acidity of Alcohols and Phenols

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The - COOH group in a carboxylic acid canbe replaced by H by heating the acid with :

A

Zn with HCl

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H_{2}

in presence of nickel

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C

soda lime

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D

bromine and concentrated aqueous alkali

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Solution

The correct option is C soda lime
Soda lime decarboxylation reaction can be used to remove the COO part of the COOH group

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