Organic Chemistry 9!

Chemistry Level 3

How Many of the following compounds can be used as a solvent for

the reaction of Anisole With Chlorine in the presence of iron to form

o-chloro anisole and p-chloro anisole .

  1. Nitrophenol

  2. Chlorobenzene

  3. Phenol

  4. Aniline

Give your answer as sum of the serial numbers of the options for

example if you think that 1 and 3 are correct then enter 4 as the answer.


Source - Asked in my test.


The answer is 3.

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1 solution

Aryan Goyat
Feb 22, 2016

if i am not wrong answer must be 1 and 2 as we must use the solvent which is inactive or least reactive toward ES.

Correct! Presence of deactivating groups make the ring non reactive which prevents aromatic substitution on the ring ! :)

Prakhar Bindal - 5 years, 3 months ago

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