Q 12.14 How will you prepare the following compounds from benzene? You may use any inorganic reagent and any organic reagent having not more than one carbon atom
(i) Methyl benzoate
Benzene on bromination formed bromobenzene and after that we have to react with in presence of ether it becomes Grignard reagents (). Grignard reagents react with carbon dioxide (dry ice) to form salts of carboxylic acids, which on acidic hydrolysis gives benzoic acid. On esterification, it gives methyl benzoate.