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C -o bond in phenol is shorter in length than that of alcohol why

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Answered by leonisha
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Explanation:

The oxygen atoms have lone pair which comes in the conjugation with benzene ring and hence, the c-o bond will attains a particular double bond character and the bond is always shorter than the bond length of single bond, so phenol have shorter bond length than methanol

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