Question

How will you prepare the following compounds from benzene? You may use any inorganic reagent and any organic reagent having not more than one carbon atom: p-Nitrobenzoic acid

Answer 1

For this, the Benzene will give out the Benzene with CH3 which will be in the presence of CH3Cl/Angyd. AlCl3.

This will give us the Major of Benzene with CH3 and NO2 and Minor of Benzene with CH3 and NO2 in nitration process.

Then filter it out to separate it. Which will be CH3 and NO2 with Benzene.

Then take it through the reaction of KMnO4 and KOH to obtain COOK and NO2 with Benzene.

This will give us p-Nitrobenzoic acid.