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(a) How do you convert the following: ...

(a) How do you convert the following:
(i) Phenol to Anisole (ii) Ethanol to Propan-2-ol
(b) Write mechanism of the following reaction:
`C_(2)H_(5)Ohunderset(443 K)overset(H_(2)SO_(4))toCH_(2)=CH_(2)+H_(2)O`
(c) Why phenol undergoes electrophilic substitution more easily than benzene?

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Benzyl chloride undergoes nucleophilic substitution readily via resonance stabilised benzyl carbocation.

On the otherhand C-Cl bond in benzene has partial double bond character due to resonance and hence is difficult to cleave.
Hence, benzyl chloride undergoes nucleophilic substitution much more easily than chlorobenzene.
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