explain phenol are acidic while alcohols are neutral
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PHENOL are acidic and alcohals are also acidic they are not neutral ...
Explanation:
Phenols area acidic because they have Phenoxide ion which makes the nature of phenol quite acidic ....
Phenols is much more acidic than alcohals but less acidic then carboxlic acid ..
it dissolves readilly in alkalies but it is too weak to affect the litmus paper or to evole Co2 from carbonates .. its dissocation constant Ka is 1.3 multiply by 10 raised to power -10 ..
Phenol is partiall soluble in water and its solution has ph of around 5 or 6 ..
PHENOXIDE ION :
the negative charge on oxygen atom can become involved in the pi electrons cloud on benzene ring .. this negatively charge is thus delocalized in the ring and the phenoxide ion becomes relatively stable...
RELATIVE STRENGTH OF ALCOHAL PHENOLS WATER ETHyNE CARBOXLIC ACID :
CArboxlic acid is more acidic than phenol which in turn more acidic than water and water which acidic than alcohal AND ALCHAOL which acidic then ETHYNE
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