Why has phenol higher boiling point than toluene addition reaction?
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In phenol, hydroxyl group is present as a functional group which is highly polar in nature. Due to this, phenol molecules are associated strongly by means of hydrogen bonds.
Considerable amount of energy is required to be supplied to boil phenol comparatively.
On other hand,in case of toluene, hydrogen bonding is absent. Thus due to weaker interaction between molecules, toluene records low boiling point than phenol.
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