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JEE Advanced levelNumerical answerDifficulty 3 of 3hc273

The compound shown is heated with excess hot alkaline and then acidified. How many carboxylic acid groups are present in the final organic product? Give the answer as an integer.

Numerical answer type, tolerance 0.5.

Answer: 2

The compound shown is 1-tert-butyl-3-isopropyl-5-methylbenzene. The methyl and isopropyl groups each have a benzylic hydrogen and each become a group. The tert-butyl group has none and is unchanged. The product, 5-tert-butylbenzene-1,3-dicarboxylic acid, has 2 carboxylic acid groups.
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