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.

Edited July 12, 200916 yr by onequestion

I wouldn't expect the first pair to react.

If you heated it up until it did then you would get an unholy mess of products.

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

Edited July 13, 200916 yr by swansont
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