(a) How do you convert the following:
(i) Phenol to anisole
(ii)Ethanol to Propan-2-ol
(b)write the mechanism of the following reacion:
(c)Why phenol undergoes electrophilic substitution reaction more easly than benzene?
(a)(i)
(ii)
(b)
Mechanism:
Step 1: Formation of protonated alcohol.
Step 2: Formation of carbocation:
Steo 3: Elimination of a proton to form ethene.
(c) Phenols undergoes electrophilic substitution reactions due to the strong activating effect of -OH group aatached to benzene ring.