nitrobenzene reaction with koh
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When nitro benzene is heated with potassium hydroxide, a mixture of ortho and para nitro phenol is obtained.
In this reaction hydrogen of benzene ring is substituted by hydroxyl group. Hydroxide ion acts as a nucleophile. Hence, this reaction is an aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction.
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