Question

Assertion: Carboxylic acids do not undergo Friedel— Crafts reaction.
Reason :Carboxyl group is meta-directing group.

• A. If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
• B. If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion
• C. If assertion is true but reason is false
• D. If both assertion and reason are false

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Carboxylic acids do not undergo Friedel— Crafts reaction because the -$COOH$group is deactivating and the catalyst aluminium chloride (Lewis acid) gets bonded to the carboxyl group.