Vitamin C is ascorbic acid.  If you examine the structure of asorbic acid given in the background secton (equation 2) there is no -COOH group present.  In the structure shown, the ascorbic acid is as a lactone or cyclic ester.  Write the equation for the hydrolysis (cleaveg by addition of water) of the lactone to the carboxylic acid.

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