Chemistry A-Level
Weak acidity of phenols
What Weak acidity of phenols means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Phenol is only weakly acidic because the phenoxide ion formed when it loses a proton is stabilised by delocalisation, but less than a carboxylate ion.
Topics that use Weak acidity of phenols
- Chromatography and qualitative analysis (OCR A-Level)
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