phenol reacts with methyl chloroformate in the presence of sodium hydroxide to form product a
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7th Jan, 2020
Hi,
This was the question asked in JEE mains 2018.
When phenol reacts in presence of base, the H will be abstracted from
O-H bond of phenol. This phenoxide ion attacks the carbonyl carbon of chloroformate and replaces the chlorine to give the product (a). The product (a) has a new bond between oxygen of phenoxide and carbonyl carbon of methyl formate formed.
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