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Question
Explain why nucleophilic substitution reactions are not very common in phenols.
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Solution
The C – O bond in phenols has some double-bond character due to resonance and hence cannot be easily cleaved by nucleophiles. So, nucleophilic substitution reactions are not very common in phenols and they give many electrophilic substitution reactions.
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