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ok maybe not practically but theoretically

like say methyl chloride is a methylating agent so it should react with say methane to change one of the hydrogens to a methyl group and make ethane.

so then phenyl chloride should theoretically do the same except instead of methylating it should phenylate it and make toluene, no? and then chlorophenol is just phenyl hydroxide chloride.

maybe i'm overly optimistic

if you want to replace the h with ch3, simply use a methylating agent...

i.e. methanol or a methyl halide

R-H + ICH3 > R-CH3 + HI

to replace the oh with ch2ch3, first you will have to reduce it to h (use hydrogen gas + nickel catalyst or something like lithium borohydride)...

then use something like ethanol or an ethyl halide

R-H + ICH2CH3 > R-CH2CH3 + HI

perhaps using the common ion effect? take the NaCl solution and evaporate it so you have NaCl crystals. you know NaCl's solubility is idk lets say 500g/liter. now judging by the volume of the unknown solution, you know that you should be able to dissolve idk lets say 20g. however if you start getting a precipitate before you dissolve 20g, that means the unknown solution already has either sodium cations or chloride anions.

or something similar to that. but that's the only way to make sense of why they would give you a "known solution".

yes lol i know i realized that obviously its just i didn't want other people to notice since the question originally said "=" not "≈"

2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8

2.4 ≈ 2

4.8 ≈ 5

2 + 2 = 5

ok yeah, you're right. sorry. intitially i just had one question which is why i made my username one question. this is my first time on a chemistry/science forum, i guess i'm not accustomed to such. but yeah, thanks.

ok sorry for all these questions but i really can't predict the right answer. say you were to mix methane and chlorophenol in a 1:1 ratio by molecules, would you get hydroxytoluene + hydrogen chloride or chlorotoluene + water?

what if instead of chlorophenol it was chloroiodobenzene? would you get chlorotoluene + HI, or iodotoluene + HCl? i would think the latter but i can't say for sure.

ok yeah you're right

ok so lets say this is methyl:

R-CH3

and this is ethyl:

R-CH2(CH3)

then what is this?

R-CH(CH3)(CH3)

idk if you can imagine it, its like a methyl group,

with two of the hydrogens replaced by methyl groups.

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edit: nevermind i found it, its prop-2-yl apparently.

wow this forum has like no people at any time.

nevermind stupid idea

if admin can delete this thread like my last one, please do

thanks

wait so if right now you have 1,3,5-trimethylbenzyl hydroxide, then yeah of course simply adding hcl to it should get you 1,3,5-trimethylbenzyl chloride + water. OH radical is a stronger oxidizer than Cl so it would want to be with that hydrogen from hcl more than that hydrocarbon benzyl whatever.

but idk how that whole delta formaldehyde protonation thing works. why would carbons attack carbons? idk.