Q 12.15 How will you bring about the following conversions in not more than two steps?
(vi) Bromobenzene to 1-phenylethanol
Bromobenzene on reacting with in presence of dry ether it formed grignard reagents (
), which on further reacting with ethanal followed by acidic hydrolysis gives 1-phenyl ethanol
Bromobenzene is a colorless liquid with the chemical formula C?H?Br. It's an aryl bromide that's made up of a benzene ring with one bromine atom attached. Bromobenzene is used as a reagent in organic synthesis.