Chemistry A-Level
Alcohol versus phenol discrimination
What Alcohol versus phenol discrimination means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Telling these apart by whether the –OH sits on the ring, as an alcohol has an –OH attached to an sp³ carbon and a phenol has an –OH attached directly to a benzene ring.
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