Statement 1: Salicylic acid is much stronger than its m-,p-isomers and benzoic acid itself.Statement 2: It is due to steric inhibition to resonance, as −OH group forces −COOH out of the plane of ring.
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a
Both statements 1 and 2 are correct
b
Statement 1 is correct and statement 2 is incorrect
c
Statement 1 is incorrect and statement 2 is correct