Q.Write name of the electrophile used in Kolbe's Reaction.

Step 1. Recall the Kolbe reaction (section 11.4.4). Sodium phenoxide is treated with carbon dioxide under pressure (6 atm) and heat (398 K), and the resulting sodium salicylate is then acidified to give salicylic acid.

Step 2. Identify the electrophile. In this electrophilic aromatic substitution, the phenoxide ring (activated and made strongly nucleophilic by the -O(-) substituent) attacks the electrophilic carbon of CO2 (the carbon of O=C=O is electron-poor, being doubly bonded to two electronegative oxygens), installing a -COO(-) group onto the ring ortho to the original oxygen. CO2 is thus the electrophile that the activated phenoxide ring attacks. …

Recalling the Kolbe reaction scheme in section 11.4.4 and identifying which reactant plays the electrophile …

• Naming sodium phenoxide itself as the electrophile, when it is actually the NUCLEOPHILE in this reaction (the activated aromatic ring a …