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Why phenol with dilute hno3 gives ortho as major products

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Answered by harshvi68
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Nitration of phenol with dilute nitric acid dilute the mixture of ortho nitrophenol and para nitrophenol but the major product is ortho nitrophenol (30%-40%) since it is an electrophile aromatic substitution reaction

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