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Salicylic acid is treated with excess aqueous . The first (carboxylic acid) is 2.97 and the second (phenolic in the salicylate anion, which is intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded) is 13.6. Given , the main product is

  1. Adisodium 2-oxidobenzoate, with release of
  2. Bsodium 2-hydroxybenzoate (phenolic unchanged), with release of
  3. Csodium 2-hydroxybenzoate without release of
  4. Dno reaction

Answer: B

The carboxylic acid reacts: , giving and thus . The phenolic ( 13.6, raised by the intramolecular H-bond) would need , so it stays protonated.
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