Alcohols and Phenols

Having covered classification and nomenclature, the chapter now turns to the substantive chemistry of alcohols and phenols together, organised into three parts taken up in the sections that follow: how each class is actually PREPARED in the laboratory and industrially (section 11.4.1 for alcohols, 11.4.2 for phenols); their PHYSICAL properties, dominated throughout by hydrogen bonding (section 11.4.3); and their CHEMICAL properties (section 11.4.4), which is further split internally into laboratory identification tests, reactions that break the O-H bond (acidity, esterification), reactions that break the C-O bond of alcohols specifically (halide formation, dehydration, oxidation), and the electrophilic-substit …