JEE Main Chemistry question

When - or -phenol sulphonic acid is treated with bromine water, the product formed is **[Manipal 2008]**

(A)2,4-dibromophenol
(B)2,4,6-tribromophenolCorrect
(C)3-bromophenol boric acid
(D)3,5-dibromophenol

Answer: (B)

Solution

Just as in direct bromination of phenol, bromine water brominates the activated ortho/para positions; here the group is simultaneously displaced (ipso substitution) by bromine, so both - and

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