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How do you convert aniline to phenol?

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Use acetic anhydride as reagent. The reaction will undergo nucleophilic addition and the reagent will attach to the amine group. Half of the reagent will become the leaving group and one H of the amine group in the reactant will leave with the reagent. The product will be the benzene ring with an amine, carbonyl, methyl attached.

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Look up sandmeyer reaction, this uses HCL and NaNO2 if my memory is correct, and creates a diazotonium salt. It is a reaction that temperature has to be kept below 5deg C, and once formed, you can add a variety of reagents to exchange the amine for other groups,, including benzene. I think the reagent is a difficult reagent to obtain as its used for illicit purposes, phosphorous acid, or something like that, but I have heard a hint that anhydrous ethanol, and a 0.1mol % acid catalyst will do the same job. AT least give that a look into.

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Diazotize with HCl and NaNO2 and then react with H3PO3.

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Outside the educational environment you never convert aniline into benzene because there's no point - aniline is made from benzene and benzene is really, really cheap. So instead of going to the time and trouble of converting benzene into aniline then back to benzene, you just use the benzene the way it comes.

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React benzene with nitric acid using sulfuric acid as a catalyst and reduce the product

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The first step is a nitration: treat benzene with H2SO4 and HNO3. Then Sn and HCl under heat with a NaOH basic work-up will get you to aniline.

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Cumen when react with o2(air) in presence of cobalt napthanate at 473k in alkaline medium to gives cumen hydroperoxide which is again react dil h2so4 to gives phenol.

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Aniline is C6H5NH2 which when reacts with NaNO2, HCl at 273-278K gives C6H5N2Cl which further reacts with H3Po2-H2O/Cu and heated gives benzene whose formula is C6H6.

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First convert aniline to diazonium salt using NaNO2/HCl at 0-5 degree C, Then diazonium ion reacts with the water at 100 degree C to produced phenol.

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You could use a Sandmeyer reaction: treat aniline with NaNO2 and HCl, which creates a diazonium salt, then use CuBr to form bromobenzene.
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Using Copper I oxide, 200oC and high pressure, reacting with Ammonia

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Why is it that aniline has a high boiling point to phenol and phenol has a high boiling point than toluene and toluene has a high boiling point than benzene?

It s the structure and bonding of Aniline, Phenol, Benzene and Toluene that causes the differences in the boiling points.


What is the name of C6H5COOC2H5?

The formula is for benzyl acetate (as an example).


If Nitrobenzene has a larger dipole moment then aniline and phenol but is much less soluble in water?

aniline and phenol can form hydrogen bonds with water molecules through their -NH2 and -OH groups, while nitrobenzene has no available hydrogens, but in principle can form hydrogen bonds with its oxygens with water hydrogen.As a matter of fact, the first option is more favorable than the second (e.g. butanol CH3CH2CH2CH2-OH is slightly more soluble than butanal CH3CH3CH2HC=0 in water, and the difference in solubility increases at increasing alkyl chain length).On a qualitative basis, one can think that aniline and phenol are more similar to water than nitrobenzene, hence they are more miscible.


How will you convert phenol to 246 trinitrophenol?

very easy, a single step reaction. When phenol is heated with Concentrated Nitric acid 2,4.6-trinitrophenol (Picric acid) is produced.


How do you convert chloro benzene to p-nitro phenol?

I'd do it this way. Use Dow's Process (NaOH) to convert chlorobenzene to phenol. Now, use nitrating mixture to get both o and p- nitrophenol. Fractional distillation should give you what you finally need.

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How to convert aniline to picric acid?

React aniline with HCl/NaNO2 (diazotisation) followed by reaction with KOH to give phenol. Nitration of phenol with fuming nitric acid gives picric acid (or trinitrophenol).


Why is o-aniline phenol less soluble in water than m-aniline phenol?

In o-aniline phenol Intramolecular hydrogen bonding occurs which is not possible in meta and is responsible for less solubility


Why is it that aniline has a high boiling point to phenol and phenol has a high boiling point than toluene and toluene has a high boiling point than benzene?

It s the structure and bonding of Aniline, Phenol, Benzene and Toluene that causes the differences in the boiling points.


What is the name of C6H5COOC2H5?

The formula is for benzyl acetate (as an example).


Give a simple procedure to convert anisole into phenol?

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How to convert phenol to aspring?

Phenol is converted to aspirin by adding carboxylic acid and esterifying the alcohol.


What are pharmaceutical uses of aniline?

Aniline is used in the synthesis of numerous pharmaceutical compounds. It serves as a starting material for the production of various analgesics, antipyretics, and anti-inflammatory drugs. Additionally, aniline derivatives are employed in the synthesis of certain antibiotics, antimalarials, and antitumor agents.


If Nitrobenzene has a larger dipole moment then aniline and phenol but is much less soluble in water?

aniline and phenol can form hydrogen bonds with water molecules through their -NH2 and -OH groups, while nitrobenzene has no available hydrogens, but in principle can form hydrogen bonds with its oxygens with water hydrogen.As a matter of fact, the first option is more favorable than the second (e.g. butanol CH3CH2CH2CH2-OH is slightly more soluble than butanal CH3CH3CH2HC=0 in water, and the difference in solubility increases at increasing alkyl chain length).On a qualitative basis, one can think that aniline and phenol are more similar to water than nitrobenzene, hence they are more miscible.


How will you convert phenol to 246 trinitrophenol?

very easy, a single step reaction. When phenol is heated with Concentrated Nitric acid 2,4.6-trinitrophenol (Picric acid) is produced.


What properties does benzene have to make it good to use?

Convert the benzene into Phenol which is a good antiseptic material.


How do you convert chloro benzene to p-nitro phenol?

I'd do it this way. Use Dow's Process (NaOH) to convert chlorobenzene to phenol. Now, use nitrating mixture to get both o and p- nitrophenol. Fractional distillation should give you what you finally need.


What is the difference between Aniline Point and Mixed Aniline Point?

There is no any such difference between Aniline point and mixed Aniline point . . . . .