The co bond is much shorter in phenol than in ethanol give reason
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The oxygen atoms have lone pair which comes in the conjugation with benzene ring and hence, the C-O bond will attains a partial double bond character. ... And the bond length of double bond is always shorter than the bond length of single bond, so phenol have shorter bond length than methanol
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bond length of double bond is always shorter than the bond length of single bond, so phenol have shorter bond length than methanol
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