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Carboxylic acid group does not give the usual addition and elimination reactions of aldehydes and ketones because 

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a

carboxylate ion gets ionised 

b

it exists as COOH and there is no carbonyl group 

c

O-H bond is more polar than 

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d

carboxylate ion gets stabilised by resonance 

answer is C.

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Due toresonance in carboxylate ion, the double bond character of C = O bond in carboxylic acids is greatly reduced as compared to that in aldehydes and ketones. 

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