Question

Convert benzene diazonium chloride to phenol

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Explanation :

The diazonium salt or diazonium chloride, on heating in the aqueous acidic medium, it liberates nitrogen and forms phenol as a product.

Diazonium salt are the important class of compounds that helps in introducing a large number of substituents into the aromatic ring system. This helps in the synthesis of all those compounds where a certain substituent can not be introduces directly into aromatic ring system through usual electrophilic substitution reaction.

The reaction is shown below.