
Organic Chemistry
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781118875766
Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig B. Fryhle, Scott A. Snyder
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter SRP, Problem 25P
The Dow process for synthesizing phenol, which involves reaction of chlorobenzene with aqueous sodium hydroxide at high temperature and pressure, produces both diphenyl ether (1) and 4-hydroxybiphenyl (2) as by-products. Write mechanisms that account for formation of 1 and 2.
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