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Formic acid vs Benzoic Acid

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... Explain with the H+ dissociation

So why don't you give that a try?

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Ya it is clear with pka values but how formic acid can be stabilize more than C6H5COOH after H+ dissociation

I might offer a guess that it has something to do with solvation. How could you test that hypothesis?

My understanding of Felix Carroll's table of gas-phase acidities (Table 7.4, p. 406) suggests to me that benzoic acid is actually stronger than formic acid in the gas phase.

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