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NEET 2019, Chemistry Q30: Properties of Phenol

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Q.

The compound that is most difficult to protonate is :

  1. A

    (1)

  2. B

    (2)

  3. C

    (3)

  4. D

    (4)

Solution

Due to involvement of lone pair of electrons in resonance in phenol, it will have positive charge (partial), hence incoming proton will not be able to attack easily.


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