Among Alcohol and Phenol which one is more acidic and why
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In phenol, pulling the electrons from the oxygen atom into the ring causes the hydrogen atom to be more partially positive than it is in aliphatic alcohols. This means it is much more easily lost from phenol than it is from aliphatic alcohols, so phenol has a stronger acidic property than ethanol
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phonol is more acidic then alcohol because phenol is more stable then alcoxide ion due to delocalsatin of negative charge in pheoxide ion
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Among alcohol and phenol,
phenol is more acedic.
Due to the resonance effect.
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