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HOW WATER IS MORE ACIDIC THAN ALCOHOL?XPLAIN ME THIS IN DETAIL
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Lokesh Verma
·2009-02-17 03:39:26
Alcohols are given by R-OH
except for special cases where the lone pair of oxygen gets delocalised like in Phenol,
R will have a +I effect.
For being acidic, it will have to have a "vulnerable" electron center.. or it should be able to donate a H+
here RO- will have to be stable.
but the +I effect of R will make it less stable compared to HO- of water.
So water is more acidic than Alcohol.