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Question
What happens when Nitrobenzene undergoes electrolytic reduction in a strongly acidic medium?
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Solution
Electrolytic reduction of nitrobenzene in weakly acidic medium gives aniline but in strongly acidic medium, it gives p-amino phenol obviously through the acid catalysed rearrangement of the initially formed phenyl hydroxylamine.
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