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Question
Write Kolbe’s reaction.
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Solution
The treatment of sodium phenoxide with carbon dioxide at 398 K under the pressure of 6 atm followed by acid-hydrolysis, salicylic acid (o-hydroxybenzoic acid) is formed. This reaction is known as Kolbe’s reaction.

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