Why does friedel craft reaction of phenol has poor yield?
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Like aniline, phenol too reacts to a very less extent during Friedel-Crafts reaction. The reason being that the oxygen atom of phenol has lone pair of electrons which coordinate with Lewis acid. In fact most substituents with lone pair would give poor yield.
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