Nucleophilic aromatic substitution provides one of the common methods for making phenols. Show how you would synthesize the following phenols, using benzene or toluene as your aromatic starting material, and explain why mixtures of products would be obtained in some cases.(a) p-nitrophenol (b) 2,4,6-tribromophenol (c) p-chlorophenol

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Nucleophilic aromatic substitution provides one of the common methods for making phenols. Show how you would synthesize the following phenols, using benzene or toluene as your aromatic starting material, and explain why mixtures of products would be obtained in some cases.
(a) p-nitrophenol (b) 2,4,6-tribromophenol (c) p-chlorophenol

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