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Apr 7, 2014
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The H in alcohols are not as good a leaving group as it is in a carboxylic acid. The ending carbon has a double bonded oxygen also attached to it in addition to an OH group, making the Oxygen attached to the hydrogen very electronegative (the electrons are sitting closer to the oxygen) and making it easier for the hydrogen to pop off as H+.