Just out of interest what would be the mechanism for this reaction? I can see the products formed and that makes sense but I don't entirely understand how they got there.
Just out of interest what would be the mechanism for this reaction? I can see the products formed and that makes sense but I don't entirely understand how they got there.
Definitely wouldn't worry about mechanisms for something like that, it'd probably be something incredibly complex anyway but for those 'suggest' kind of questions I think you're just supposed to apply your knowledge to something you haven't seen/don't explicitly know to answer it without understanding what's going on
Definitely wouldn't worry about mechanisms for something like that, it'd probably be something incredibly complex anyway but for those 'suggest' kind of questions I think you're just supposed to apply your knowledge to something you haven't seen/don't explicitly know to answer it without understanding what's going on
Haha, I know but I like trying to understand it anyway. Also, I generally find it helpful just to try see as much as possible for those suggest questions (I don't know how much it helps but it makes me feel better lol).
Haha, I know but I like trying to understand it anyway. Also, I generally find it helpful just to try see as much as possible for those suggest questions (I don't know how much it helps but it makes me feel better lol).
That's probably for the best tbh! At least you'll be less likely to be surprised in the exam and it's a good feeling if you can understand it well
is the nitration of phenol the same as the nitration of benzene?
From chemguide:
The -OH group attached to the benzene ring in phenol has the effect of making the ring much more reactive than it would otherwise be.For example, as you will find below, phenol will react with a solution of bromine in water (bromine water) in the cold and in the absence of any catalyst. It also reacts with dilute nitric acid, whereas benzene itself needs a nitrating mixture of concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulphuric acid.
Can someone please explain if hydrogen bonds form between C=O groups, or just -OH groups? And also, if I have -COOH group, is the proton attached to the oxygen a singlet? Because it's not directly attached to the carbon, so won't be split?