Q. What are $X$ and $Y$ in the following reactions?

X Y

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

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A

a

B

b

C

c

D

d

Solution:

When phenol treated with chloroform $(C H C l_{3})$ in the presence of aqueous sodium hydroxide $(N a O H)$ , product will be $2$ -hydroxy benzaldehyde (salicylaldehyde).

When phenol react with $C O_{2}, N a O H$ , it gives salicylic acid $(o$ -hydroxy benzoic acid $)$ .