Why phenol is more acidic than methanol?
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Phenol is also known as carbolic acid.it is acid but methanol is type of alcohol and wood alcohol which is not stronger than phenol
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Phenol, by far (100,000 fold, in fact). Although it's still not a particularly strong acid, its conjugate base is resonance stabilized by the benzene ring, whereas methanol's has no such help. Even among alcohols, it's the weakest base. For comparison, the pKa of water is 15.7, methanol is 16, and phenol is 10, which is still more acidic than the ammonium ion (15.7
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