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Grade 12th pass10 grade science

How will you convert phenol to benzene?

Profile image of Harshit Singh
4 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Yash Patari
4 Years ago
Dear student
Phenol can be converted to benzene by using strong reducing agents like Zn dust with strong heating. When strongly heated,the phenol gets converted into phenoxide ion and proton thus released accepts an electron from Zn forming H radical.
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