Carboxylic acids often give a strong fragment ion at m/z (M – 17). What is the likely structure of this cation? Show by drawing contributing structures that it is stabilized by resonance.

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Carboxylic acids often give a strong fragment ion at m/z (M – 17). What is the likely structure of this cation? Show by drawing contributing structures that it is stabilized by resonance.

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