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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

WHY DIPOLE MOMENT OF P-HYDROXY PHENOL IS NON ZERO?

Profile image of Anurag Kishore
16 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Badiuddin askIITians.ismu Expert
16 Years ago

Dear anurag

In P-HYDROXY PHENOL , -OH group are atached to benzene ring at and angel 180 degree.so ther vectorially oppsite to each other.Moment due to 1 -OH group cancel the moment due to other -OH group.

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Profile image of Harsh Yadav
9 Years ago
The dipole moment is non zero because there is non restricted rotation about the single bond between O and H thus giving lots of conformation with non zero dipole moment