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Answer true or false. (a) Phenols and alcohols have in common the presence of an —OH gr...

Answer true or false.

(a) Phenols and alcohols have in common the presence of an —OH group.

(b) Phenols are weak acids and react with strong bases to give water-soluble salts.

(c) The pKa of phenol is smaller than that of acetic acid.

(d) Autoxidation converts an R—H group to an R—OH (hydroxyl) group.

(e) A carbon radical has only seven electrons in the valence shell of one of its carbons, and this carbon bears a positive charge.

(f ) A characteristic of a chain initiation step is conversion of a nonradical to a radical.

(g) Autoxidation is a radical-chain process.

(h) A characteristic of the chain propagation step is reaction of a radical and a molecule to form a new radical and a new molecule.

(i) Vitamin E and other natural antioxidants function by interrupting the cycle of chain propagation steps that occurs in autoxidation.

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