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Why carboxylic acids have a higher boiling point than alcohols of same number of carbon atoms?
Carboxylic acids have higher boiling point than alcohols due to more extensive association of carboxylic acid molecules through intermolecular hydrogen bonding. The hydrogen bonds are not broken completely even in the vapour phase. Hence carboxylic acids have higher boiling points than alcohols.
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