Question: When benzoic acid is mixed with excess 18 OH 2 and a strong H+ catalyst which of the following would you expect? Group of answer

When benzoic acid is mixed with excess 18OH2 and a strong H+ catalyst which of the following would you expect?

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Both oxygens of the carboxyl group exchange with the 18O of the water.

Only the carbonyl oxygen exchanges with the 18O of the water.

Only the OH oxygen exchanges with the 18O of the water.

No oxygen exchange takes place.

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