Explain, o - nitrophenol is more acidic than o - cresol.
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o-Nitrophenol is more acidic than the o-cresol, and you can easily verify this with the help of the pKa values.
When you check the pKa value of o-nitrophenol, it will be 7.2.
On the other hand, for the o-cresol, it is 10.316.
Due to the negative inductive effect, o-nitrophenol has the greater acidic nature than o-cresol.
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