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Why phenol is slow towards friedal.Crafts reaction?

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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. ... on the aromatic ring giving an aryl ketone via C-acylation, a Friedel-Crafts reaction

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